The last drop : the politics of water / Mike Gonzalez and Marianella Yanes.
2015
HD1691 .G66 2015
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Title
The last drop : the politics of water / Mike Gonzalez and Marianella Yanes.
ISBN
9780745334912
9780745334929
9781783715206 (PDF eBook)
9781783715220 (Kindle eBook)
9781783715213 (EPUB eBook)
9780745334929
9781783715206 (PDF eBook)
9781783715220 (Kindle eBook)
9781783715213 (EPUB eBook)
Published
London : Pluto Press, 2015.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 202 pages) : illustrations.
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HD1691 .G66 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification
363.61
Summary
The one indispensable resource, water is increasingly controlled and even owned by private capital. By 2012, water was a trillion-dollar industry--and as population growth, industrial production, and ecological change make scarcity ever-more common, water may well become the source of military and political conflict in the years to come. This book looks at how we got here and what we can and should do next. Laying out the complex arguments surrounding water, its ownership and access to it, Mike Gonzalez and Marianella Yanes make the technical and scientific aspects of the discussion clear and accessible--and thereby enable themselves to make the political questions more urgent. Pushing back against the market fundamentalists, the authors argue that it is both possible and necessary that considerations of equity and social justice prevail in the debates about water. Powerful and polemical, The Last Drop will be a vital resource for water activists worldwide.--Amazon.com.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Yanes, Marianella, author.
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Table of Contents
A floating planet
How water was privatised
Disasters, natural and otherwise
A short trip through Amazonia
Bitter harvests
Virtual water
Water and global warming
Ya basta! Enough is enough!
What is to be done?
A new world water order.
How water was privatised
Disasters, natural and otherwise
A short trip through Amazonia
Bitter harvests
Virtual water
Water and global warming
Ya basta! Enough is enough!
What is to be done?
A new world water order.