History
Water and transportation have been the cornerstones of infrastructure since Roman times.[xiv] The first documented public-private partnership [xv] in colonial America dates to 1652, when the privately owned Water Works Company of Boston agreed to provide drinking water to local citizens.
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"Nowhere was the old approach better illustrated than in Washington, DC, itself, by Mayor Marion Barry- arguably one of the worst of the big-city mayors-when he blamed the federal government for crime in his city because it was not giving him enough money." -E.S.Savas,
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