Water wars : privatization, pollution, and profit / Vandana Shiva.

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Date:
[2016]
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Description

"Celebrates the spiritual and traditional role water has played in communities throughout history and warns that water privatization threatens cultures and livelihoods worldwide"--Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

Berkeley, California : North Atlantic Books, [2016]

Physical description

xxxii, 156 pages ; 23 cm

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Notes

Originally published: Cambridge, MA : South End Press, ©2002.
Includes index.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction to the second edition -- 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.

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    History of Medicine
    JE.U
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ISBN

  • 9781623170721
  • 1623170729