💨 Abstract

In Martinique, a French Caribbean territory, water costs double that of Paris and is distrusted due to poor quality and fears of pesticide contamination. Protests over high prices and poor services led to government promises of legislation to tackle grocery prices, but activists remain sceptical, linking economic success to white creole families who descended from slave owners and control much of the economy.

Courtesy: theprint.in

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