The basic direction of these reforms is to increasingly transform the water sector into market-based and commercial operations, and a resulting commodification of water.
The ensuing commodification of the hardware however endangers the traditional business model of networking vendors such as Juniper that have relied on hardware complexity to drive margins.
In this week's Scrubbing Up, Prof Cathy Warwick, chief executive of the Royal College of Midwives, outlines her fears about the "commercialisation and the commodification of pregnancy and childbirth".
Lastly, the third challenge is to pose strict limits on the processes of commodification of the environment which are at the root of the ecological damage that affects Latin America today.
If there are weaknesses, it is the familiarity of themes from his previous work: the commodification of sex, the interaction between modern science and spirituality, the link between happiness and suffering.
While I'm delighted that Mary Beard is comfortable in her body, to conclude from that that battles around female objectification and sexual commodification have been won betrays a serious ignorance of the ongoing issues of ageist and sexist discrimination faced by women in relation to their appearance.
Pro-life and religious groups will ultimately feel that the bank signals the start of a commodification of human life and that the special status granted to human embryonic material - the requirement that it should be used only for research that would lead to the creation of life - has now changed.