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The price of thirst :

0816695423

9780816695423

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The price of thirst :

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global water inequality and the coming chaos /

Karen Piper

xii, 289 pages :

illustrations ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-276) and index

Introduction: The colonial origins of global water inequity -- Water hoarding in a California drought -- How a coup opened Chile's water markets -- South Africa's water apartheid -- Mother Ganga is not for sale -- A revolution of the thirsty in Egypt -- Targeting Iraq's water -- Conclusion: Imagining a water-secure world

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"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

Bottled water industry

Water consumption-- Economic aspects

Water resources development

Water security

Water utilities

Water-supply-- Economic aspects

Piper, Karen Lynnea,1965-

20170217060816.8

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