Water Wars - Pollution, Profits and Privatization (Paperback)

"The world's most prominent radical scientist." The Guardian Vandana Shiva, a world-renowned environmentalist and campaigner, examines the 'water wars' of the twenty-first century: the aggressive privatization by the multinationals of communal water rights. While drought 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, acclaimed author Vandana Shiva sheds light on the activists who are fighting corporate manoeuvres 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 the international water trade and industrial activities such as damming, mining, and aquafarming as her lens, Shiva exposes the destruction of the earth and the disenfranchisement of the world's poor as they are stripped of rights to a precious common good. Shiva calls for a movement to preserve water access for all, and offers a blueprint for global resistance based on examples of successful campaigns.

General

Imprint:	Pluto Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2002
Authors:	Vandana Shiva
Dimensions:	215 x 135 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	176
ISBN-13:	978-0-7453-1837-0
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Management of land & natural resources Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Ownership & organization of enterprises > Privatization Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Energy industries & utilities > Water industries
LSN:	0-7453-1837-1
Barcode:	9780745318370

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