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Piper, Karen Lynnea, 1965- author.
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Water-supply -- Economic aspects.
Water consumption -- Economic aspects.
Water resources development.
Bottled water industry.
Water utilities.
Water security.
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The price of thirst ...
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The price of thirst : global water inequality and the coming chaos / Karen Piper.
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Piper, Karen Lynnea, 1965- author.
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2014.
Subjects
Water-supply -- Economic aspects.
Water consumption -- Economic aspects.
Water resources development.
Bottled water industry.
Water utilities.
Water security.
ISBN:
9780816695423 (hc : alk. paper) :
0816695423 (hc : alk. paper)
Description:
xii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
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.
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