Evidence shows that businesses may often be better suited (in terms of experience, efficiencies, and capital) to develop and operate water utilities than governments are, and yet the very notion of letting a firm make a profit from a public resource strikes many people as wrong. Critics of privatized water systems stress that clean water is a human right, and not a commodity to be bought and sold. What do you think? Should companies like Suez and Nestlé be allowed to profit from local water supplies? How might better marketing practices avert the kinds of situations that might lead to backlash against businesses?