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" The price of thirst : "
Karen Piper
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BL
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636790
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Piper, Karen Lynnea,1965-
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The price of thirst : : global water inequality and the coming chaos /\ Karen Piper
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xii, 289 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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9780816695423
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: 0816695423
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-276) and index
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| Contents
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Introduction: The colonial origins of global water inequity -- 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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Water-supply-- Economic aspects
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Water consumption-- Economic aspects
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Water resources development
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Bottled water industry
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Water utilities
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Water security
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HD1691.P486 2014
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