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Opportunities for water companies are flowing around the world because of looming shortages and decades of underinvestment. Saudi Arabia and Algeria, where water shortages have become acute, are placing billions of dollars of contracts out to bid to improve water supplies for their growing populations. The trend is expected to grow, as 40% of the world’s population will suffer water shortages by 2050, according to the United Nations Development Program. Global warming is expected to exacerbate the problem.
Saudi Arabia began privatizing water services after shortages sparked riots last November in Jeddah. Loay Ahmed Musallam, the deputy water minister, said the first contract to manage water supplies for Riyadh would be awarded this year. By 2010, private companies will provide water for half the population, he added. Saudi Arabia plans to invest $ 37 billion over five years to improve water pipelines. Leaks cost 1 million cubic meters of water a day--the output of
A. Global warming will exacerbate the shortage of water.
B. Water companies will feel happy because of water shortage.
C. Saudi Arabia and Algeria are making great efforts to solve the problem of water shortage.
D. According to the UN, 60% of the world’s population won’t suffer water shortages by 2050.

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Opportunities for water companies are flowing around the world because of looming shortages and decades of underinvestment. Saudi Arabia and Algeria, where water shortages have become acute, are placing billions of dollars of contracts out to bid to improve water supplies for their growing populations. The trend is expected to grow, as 40% of the world’s population will suffer water shortages by 2050, according to the United Nations Development Program. Global warming is expected to exacerbate the problem.
Saudi Arabia began privatizing water services after shortages sparked riots last November in Jeddah. Loay Ahmed Musallam, the deputy water minister, said the first contract to manage water supplies for Riyadh would be awarded this year. By 2010, private companies will provide water for half the population, he added. Saudi Arabia plans to invest $ 37 billion over five years to improve water pipelines. Leaks cost 1 million cubic meters of water a day--the output of
A. show privatized water is world’s direction to solve water crisis.
B. explain why $ 37 billion will be invested to solve the problem of water shortage in Saudi Arabia.
C. show Saudis consumed too much water even though Saudi Arabia is the driest parts of the globe.
D. call for government to find more solutions for water conservation.

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Many private institutions of higher education around the country are in danger. Not all will be saved, and perhaps not all deserved to be saved. There are low-quality schools just as there is low-quality business. We have no obligation to save them simply because they exist.
But many thriving institutions that deserve to continue are threatened. They are doing a fine job educationally, but they are caught in a financial squeeze, with no way to reduce rising costs or increasing revenues significantly. Raising tuition doesn’t bring in more revenues, for each time tuition goes up, the enrollment goes down, or the amount that must be given away in student aid goes up. Schools are businesses, whether public or private, not usually because of mismanagement but because of the nature of the enterprise. They lose money on every customer, and they can go bankrupt either from too few students or too many students. Even a very good college is a very bad

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