Yesterday, Kishore Jayabalan wrote an article entitled: Does the Vatican think water should be “free?” The simple answer to his question is no.
In Water, an Essential Element for Life the Holy See criticizes “overly commercial viewpoints” as inadequate for the protection of the poor. It logically asserts that if we rely only on profit (“economic expediency”) to dictate water service, then the poor are at risk of being ignored. The Vatican is not rejecting the free market as the best basic delivery system for water (in two places, the document actually presupposes use of the free market this way), but only asserting an appropriately Catholic view of humane economics.
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