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Water is a natural resource. Without water it is impossible to imagine life on earth. Every animal, plants and human needs water to survive. Water is a basic human right. More than a billion individuals in the developing world lack safe drinking water that those in the developed world underestimate. About three billion individuals live without access to sufficient sanitation that is important to diminish water-related illnesses (Stein and Nicklaas, 2002). Another fact is that freshwater makes up just 0.01% of the planets water and less 0.8% of the earth surface (Dudgeon, Gessner, Kawabata, Knowler, Leveque and Sullivan, 2006). By seeing the facts it can be understood how important it is to use water judiciously. In this essay I am going to argue whether water service should be privatized or not.

Private-sector contribution in infrastructure was actively advanced by improving agencies and worldwide foundations in the 1990s and mid2000s. It was expected to inject both investment and productivity into these areas in developing nations, replacing traditional public sector which was experiencing under-investment and wastefulness because of political impedance and rent-seeking from bureaucracies. It was expected that this expansion of private-sector contribution would be effective, only except those intrigues missing out as a consequence of the change process (Hall, lobina, Motte, 2006).But in the case of water and energy sector private sector potentials are not full filled in the developing nations due to many reasons. This essay will discuss few reasons why water service should not be privatized in developing nations .Privatization may influence price if it has impact on cost. Privatization may also reduce costs if chances are there to bring about more prominent efficiency. In any case, successful regulation is very important to guarantee that the advantages should reach consumer and not simply shareholders. Also, the requirement for financial investors to gain a business return may put upward pressure on costs. As stated by (Fouster and Mouly, 2006, p.251) “Privatisation is synonymous with the movement away from the production of goods and services for the public good to the production of goods and services for profit”. Privatization might likewise influence costs if speculators need confirmation of income steadiness without needing to depend on government subsidy, In Guinea prices rose exorbitant due to privatisation of water (Bayliss, 2003). Any private supplier would need to disengage administrations so even if they are increasing or giving a special priority to limited people government is not able to take action those that default payment, as this would be important to guarantee proficiency and benefit. However, the developing number of individuals that live in the slums and townships recommends that there is likely to be mass disengagements to meet this financial target, unless the administration proposes to present appropriations, which would overcome the purpose of privatization in the writing on morals and ethics, it is being contended that serious poverty is one of the vital difficulties of recent time (Rahman, Everett, Neu, 2013). Private companies are profit motive they want return on investment but in developing nations not everyone is able to pay an extra amount to afford fresh water. In 1999, the UK organization Biwater, after broad transaction, pulled back from a water privatization project in Zimbabwe due to the fact that local customers couldn't bear the cost of duties that were adequate to produce a sufficient business return for the organization (Bayliss, 2003) sometimes it not just the consumer but the business also goes into loss due to privatisation as the fact above explains that. The interaction between private water organizations and their worldwide custodian can be hard to manage and may have an aggressive effect on rivalry. In Guinea the custodian organizations of the private utility weak water capacity in the regulator has been partly in charge of water costs fragile ruling, made it hard to evaluate demands for expansions, in  general tax and the offers went to the private administrator. This made a circumstance where the administration reacted inactively to business danger was lessened as there was effective pass through on expenses (Bayliss, 2003). The Political implication of privatization is all administration choices activated by the choice to privatize a given firm.  These may influence the firm's efficiency either positively or negatively. A beneficial outcome will happen if for example, the administration decides to privatize a firm from an industry that will quickly develop, so as to make privatization look great. Then again, negative impacts are regularly an outcome of offering need to privatization objectives other than efficiency, when the decision between those objectives and that of efficiency includes a trade-off (Arocena and Oliveros, 2012). Privatization advancing desecration among senior civil servants and government officials as the bidding process is not transparent, privatization strengthens the force of various selection process. Government official through misuse of economic resources try to select a particular party (Rahman, Everett and Neu, 2013) Greedy public department people sometimes support privatisation due to their personal interest the privatized companies sometimes are not ethical and does not have moral values if water privatisation goes into the hand of these unethical people this will create huge conflicts for water in the developing nations.