<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">David Legge</b> <<a href="mailto:D.Legge@latrobe.edu.au">D.Legge@latrobe.edu.au</a>><br></span>

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<p><b><font face="Tahoma" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">

 Sara Grusky [mailto:<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:sgrusky@fwwatch.org" target="_blank">sgrusky@fwwatch.org</a>] <br></span></font><font face="Times New Roman" color="black" size="3">

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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" color="black" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Bechtel At It Again</span></font></p></td></tr>

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<p><font face="Times New Roman" color="black" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Raw sewage. Hepatitis A. Discrimination. No running water. San Francisco-based corporation Bechtel is misbehaving in Ecuador.</span></font>

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Tell CEO Riley Bechtel enough is enough!</a></span></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table>

<p><font face="Verdana" color="#58595b" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #58595b; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Bechtel's<span> </span>at it again.</span></font><font color="#58595b"><span style="COLOR: #58595b">

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<font face="Verdana" color="#58595b" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #58595b; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> The same corporation that spurred the infamous "Water Wars" in my home country Bolivia in 2000 thinks that it can get away with the same irresponsible tactics, this time in the neighboring country of Ecuador.

<span> </span><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Ao000yPBnjIYqarc92SBf4qUHzyme9Y6" target="_blank">We say, no way.</a></span></font><font color="#58595b">

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<p><font face="Verdana" color="#58595b" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #58595b; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><br>I lived through Bechtel's water management in Cochabamba in 2000, and I'm watching history repeat itself. Bechtel, a 

U.S. corporation based in San Francisco, has cut off water services from poor people, dumped raw sewage into rivers, and provided residents with contaminated water, leading to an outbreak of Hepatitis A in 2005. Now, realizing that the privatization scheme has failed, Bechtel is trying to sell-out to another private corporation, flee the country with the profits and leave its debts and contractual promises behind.

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<font face="Verdana" color="#58595b" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #58595b; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> But Ecuadorians are saying, "Enough!" They will not permit Bechtel to flee without taking responsibility for this disaster. And we can help. The Ecuadorian regulatory agency recently fined Bechtel's water company $1.5 million for violating its contract. And more than 10,000 people have signed a petition demanding the cancellation of their debt to the water company.

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<p><font face="Verdana" color="#58595b" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #58595b; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><br>Can you add your voice by sending a letter to Bechtel's CEO, Riley Bechtel?</span></font><font color="#58595b">

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<p><font face="Times New Roman" color="#58595b" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #58595b"><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=CzB7r0LsV83oeJWaUaJ5b4qUHzyme9Y6" target="_blank">

<font face="Verdana"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1185/t/741/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=21855</span></font></a></span></font></p>

<font face="Verdana" color="#58595b" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #58595b; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> He needs to know that the world supports Ecuadorians defending their right to clean, affordable water.

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<font face="Verdana" color="#58595b" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #58595b; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> When Bechtel tripled water rates for poor Bolivians and criminalized the catching of rainwater, the world responded. Thousands of people from dozens of countries sent letters to the corporation and rallied outside its San Francisco headquarters. In 2000, Bechtel left Bolivia under pressure.

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<font face="Verdana" color="#58595b" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #58595b; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> Now history seems to be repeating itself in Ecuador. Tell CEO Riley Bechtel not to make the same mistake twice.

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<font face="Verdana"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1185/t/741/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=21855</span></font></a></span></font></p>

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<p><font face="Verdana" color="#58595b" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #58595b; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">In solidarity,</span></font><font color="#58595b"><span style="COLOR: #58595b"><br></span></font><font face="Verdana" color="#58595b">

<span style="COLOR: #58595b; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Marcela Olivera<br>Food & Water Watch's Latin American Coordinator<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:water%28at%29fwwatch.org?subject=Bechtel%2C%20Ecuador" target="_blank">

water(at)fwwatch.org</a></span></font><font color="#58595b"><span style="COLOR: #58595b"></span></font></p>

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<strong><b><font face="Helvetica" color="#939598"><span style="COLOR: #939598; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">click here</span></font></b></strong></a>.</span></font></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table>

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