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The Price of Thirst : Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos /
"There's Money in Thirst," reads a headline in the New York Times. The CEO of Nestle, 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 ha...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a "There's Money in Thirst," reads a headline in the New York Times. The CEO of Nestle, 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. | ||
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