Blue Gold The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water

Name: Blue Gold The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water
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ISBN: 9781565848139

ISBN-10: 1565848136

ISBN-13: 9781565848139

Edition: 2005

Authors: Maude Barlow, Tony Clarke

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The internationally acclaimed story of the corporate takeover of our most basic resource and the inevitable global water crisis. In this "chilling, in-depth examination of a rapidly emerging global crisis" (In These Times), Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, two of the most active opponents to the privatization of water show how, contrary to received wisdom, water mainly flows uphill to the wealthy. Our most basic resource may one day be limited: our consumption doubles every twenty yearstwice the rate of population increase. At the same time, increasingly transnational corporations are plotting to control the world's dwindling water supply. In England and France, where water has already been…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: New Press, The
Publication date: 9/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.20" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.990



Acknowledgments


Introduction


Treaty Initiative



The Crisis



Red Alert



Endangered Planet



Dying of Thirst



The Politics



Everything for Sale



Global Water Lords



Emergent Water Cartel



Global Nexus



The Way Forward



Fightback



The Standpoint



The Way Forward


Notes


Index