Bibliograph

The price of thirst, global water inequality and the coming chaos, Karen Piper

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The price of thirst, global water inequality and the coming chaos, Karen Piper

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The price of thirst

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

877365211

Responsibility statement

Karen Piper

Sub title

global water inequality and the coming chaos

Summary

"There's Money in Thirst, " reads a headline in the New York Times. The CEO of Nestle, 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

Table Of 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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