Water wars : privatization, pollution, and profit / Vandana Shiva.
- Q235451
- 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
Contributors
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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Location Status History of MedicineJE.UOpen shelves
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ISBN
- 9781623170721
- 1623170729