And We Sold the Rain

A similar situation with Bolivia's water system happens in this story. The Cochabamba protests of 2000, also known as the Cochabamba Water War were protests made from the Bolivian people against the government  of Bolivia and the United States because the government of Bolivia sold the water system to the USA by putting it up for auction and when the water service was privatized by the Americans the cost of the water went skyrocket and people couldn't afford to pay for their water service. The high costs for water services made the Bolivians furious and started protesting for the precious liquid which brought a state of emergency to certain states of Bolivia but nothing could be done about the privatization of the services since the government replied to the protests "There is nothing to negotiate."

I found this decision extremely foolish and selfish, why would you as a governor or as a president sell your own water to another country? Seriously how stupid can you be as to sell the life giving liquid to someone else? That's like selling your own life to someone else, nothing can survive without water and apparently the Bolivian Government didn't realized that or maybe greed was too big at the moment, besides when there's money involved people seems to get stupider and stupider when it comes to taking decisions, maybe the $2.5 billions  where greater than the town suffering.