The price of thirst : global water inequality and the coming chaos / Karen Piper.
"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 ha...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Colonial Origins of Global Water Inequality
- Part I. Wheeling and Dealing Water in the Americas
- 1. Water Hoarding in a California Drought
- 2. How a Coup Opened Chile's Water Markets
- Part II. Postcolonial Water Insurgencies
- 3. South Africa's Water Apartheid
- 4. Mother Ganga Is Not for Sale
- Part III. Water Wars in the Middle East
- 5. A Revolution of the Thirsty in Egypt
- 6. Targeting Iraq's Water
- Conclusion: Imagining a Water-Secure World.