Russell Hobbs said: September 15, 2010 3:59 am PST
The People of the City of Gloucester declare that access to clean and affordable water is essential for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness Â? both for the health of the people and for the ecological systems which support human and natural communities Â? and therefore, that it is a right belonging to the people of the City of Gloucester. We believe that our rights are threatened when public water systems which guarantee that access are controlled by a corporate few, rather than by our community. We believe that privatization of that infrastructure constitutes a usurpation of our democratic right to make decisions about that infrastructure, and therefore, that we are duty bound under the Massachusetts Constitution to prohibit such action.