City Not for Sale: Baltimore Voters Push Back on Privatization
- Measure to keep water works public passing by wide margin
- Baltimore would be the biggest U.S. city to take that step
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Baltimore’s water works won’t be sold off.
Voters in Maryland’s largest city on Tuesday by a vote of 77 percent supported a ballot measure that bars it from privatizing the government-owned water and sewer system, with votes from all but six precincts reporting, according to preliminary returns.