Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit / Edition 1

by Vandana Shiva

Overview

An expose of the privatization of water that threatens the livelihood of the people in the South.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780896086500
Publisher:	South End Press
Publication date:	02/01/2002
Series:	Ecology and Green Politics Series
Pages:	158
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Vandana Shiva is a physicist, world-renowned environmental thinker and activist, and a tireless crusader for economic, food, and gender justice. She is the author and editor of many influential books, including Making Peace with the Earth, Earth Democracy, Soil Not Oil, Stolen Harvest, Biopiracy, and Globalization’s New Wars. Dr. Shiva is the recipient of more than twenty international awards, among them the Right Livelihood Award (1993); the John Lennon-Yoko Ono Grant for Peace (2008); The Sydney Peace Prize (2010); and the Calgary Peace Prize (Canada, 2011). In addition, she is a board member of the World Future Council and one of the leaders and board members of the International Forum on Globalization (whose other members include Jerry Mander, Edward Goldsmith, Ralph Nader, and Jeremy Rifkin). She travels frequently to speak at conferences around the world.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Introduction to the Second Edition xv

Introduction Converting Abundance into Scarcity 1

Chapter 1 Water Rights: The State, the Market, the Community 19

Chapter 2 Climate Change and the Water Crisis 39

Chapter 3 The Colonization of Rivers: Dams and Water Wars 53

Chapter 4 The World Bank, the WTO, and Corporate Control Over Water 87

Chapter 5 Food and Water 107

Chapter 6 Converting Scarcity into Abundance 119

Chapter 7 The Sacred Waters 131

Appendix 141

Index 147

About the Author 157

Editorial Reviews

An excellent starting point for anyone who wants to understand the forces driving water scarcity today and threatening its future supply.”
—Women’s Review of Books
 
“A chilling, in-depth examination of the rapidly emerging global crisis.”
—In These Times
 
“Shiva is a burst of creative energy, an intellectual power.”
—The Progressive
 
“One of the world’s most prominent radical scientists.”
—The Guardian

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