| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 289 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: The Colonial Origins of Global Water Inequality -- Part I. Wheeling and Dealing Water in the Americas -- 1. Water Hoarding in a California Drought -- 2. How a Coup Opened Chile's Water Markets -- Part II. Postcolonial Water Insurgencies -- 3. South Africa's Water Apartheid -- 4. Mother Ganga Is Not for Sale -- Part III. Water Wars in the Middle East -- 5. A Revolution of the Thirsty in Egypt -- 6. Targeting Iraq's Water -- Conclusion: Imagining a Water-Secure World |
| Summary |
"There's Money in Thirst," reads a headline in the New York Times. The CEO of Nestlé, purveyor of bottled water, heartily agrees. It is important to give water a market value, he says in a promotional video, so "we're all aware that it has a price." But for those who have no access to clean water, a fifth of the world's population, the price is thirst. This is the frightening landscape that Karen Piper conducts us through in The Price of Thirst--one where thirst is political, drought is a business opportunity, and more and more of our most necessary natural resource is controlled by multinational corporations. The product of seven years of investigation across six continents and a dozen countries, and scores of interviews with CEOs, activists, environmentalists, and climate change specialists, The Price of Thirst paints a harrowing picture of a world out of balance, with the distance between the haves and have-nots of water inexorably widening and the coming crisis moving ever closer |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-276) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Water security.
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Water utilities.
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Bottled water industry.
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Water resources development.
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Water consumption -- Economic aspects
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Water-supply -- Economic aspects
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Waterworks.
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waterworks.
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water resources development.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
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NATURE -- Environmental Conservation & Protection.
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Waterworks
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Bottled water industry
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Water consumption -- Economic aspects
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Water resources development
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Water security
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Water-supply -- Economic aspects
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Water utilities
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781452943718 |
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1452943710 |
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9781452949635 |
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1452949638 |
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