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Each of France's 36, 500 communes is responsible for the supply and, crucially, the price of its water.
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Like the residents of Barrancabermeja's communes, Lino Bohorquez used to feel trapped in a cycle of violence and poverty.
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There are also several key communes within Sancerre where the best vineyards and some of the best producers are located.
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Most so-called Parisians live outside the historic inner city, in a patchwork of communes and communities that lie beyond the outer ring road.
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All local council proceedings must be in Dutch, even in a couple of communes where the mayor and most local politicians are Walloon.
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His Socialist Party now controls both houses of the legislature, all but one French region and most of the country's departments, big towns and communes.
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The big tax on incomes is imposed by the municipalities in Sweden and by the communes in Denmark, those latter being groupings of as few as 10, 000 citizens.
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Depending on which survey you believe, water supplied to communes (the lowest tier of administration) is somewhere between 16% and 44% more expensive if it comes from private companies.
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By offering families a rebate to offset the cost of latrines and by offering communes a conditional cash transfer when they reach sanitation adoption goals, we make sure change happens quickly.
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Landowning farmers were beginning to replace peasant communes.
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It was co-founded by Patri Friedman, a grandson of Milton Friedman, a Nobel laureate in economics, and until recently executive director of the Seasteading Institute, a group producing research on how to build ocean-based communes.
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