Water Wars Privatization, Pollution, and Profit

Name: Water Wars Privatization, Pollution, and Profit
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ISBN: 9780896086500

ISBN-10: 089608650X

ISBN-13: 9780896086500

Edition: 2002

Authors: Vandana Shiva

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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 gold for the elites. In Water Wars, Shiva uses her remarkable knowledge of science and society to outline the emergence of corporate culture and the historical erosion of communal water rights. Using…

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List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: South End Press
Publication date: 2/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 158
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: Converting Abundance into Scarcity



Water Rights: The State, the Market, the Community



Climate Change and the Water Crisis



The Colonization of Rivers: Dams and Water Wars



The World Bank, the WTO, and Corporate Control Over Water



Food and Water



Converting Scarcity into Abundance



The Sacred Waters


Appendix


Index


About the Author


About South End Press


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