Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit, Vol. 1
While draught and desertification are intensifying around the world, corporations are aggressively converting free-flowing water into bottled profits. The water wars of the twenty-first century may match—or even surpass—the oil wars of the twentieth. In Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit, Vandana Shiva, "the world's most prominent radical scientist" (the Guardian), shines a light on activists who are fighting corporate maneuvers to convert this life-sustaining resource into more...
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An expose of the privatization of water that threatens the livelihood of the people in the South.
PrefaceIntroduction: Converting Abundance into Scarcity11Water Rights: The State, the Market, the Community192Climate Change and the Water Crisis393The Colonization of Rivers: Dams and Water Wars534The World Bank, the WTO, and Corporate Control Over Water875Food and Water1076Converting Scarcity into Abundance1197The Sacred Waters131Appendix141Index147About the Author158About South End Press159Related Titles160
