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050		4	_aHD1691 _b.P486 2014
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100	1		_aPiper, Karen. _eauthor
245	1	0	_aPrice of Thirst : _bGlobal Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos / _cKaren Piper.
264		1	_aMinneapolis : _bUniversity of Minnesota Press, _c2014.
264		4	_c©2014.
300			_a1 online resource (304 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: 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 -- Notes -- Recommended Reading -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
520			_a"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. In visits to the hot spots of water scarcity and the hotshots in water finance, Piper shows us what happens when global businesses with mafia-like powers buy up the water supply and turn off the taps of people who cannot pay: border disputes between Iraq and Turkey, a "revolution of the thirsty" in Egypt, street fights in Greece, an apartheid of water rights in South Africa. The Price of Thirst takes us to Chile, the first nation to privatize 100 percent of its water supplies, creating a crushing monopoly instead of a thriving free market in water; to New Delhi, where the sacred waters of the Ganges are being diverted to a private water treatment plant, fomenting unrest; and to Iraq, where the U.S.-mandated privatization of water resources destroyed by our military is further destabilizing the volatile region. And in our own backyard, where these same corporations are quietly buying up water supplies, Piper reveals how "water banking" is drying up California farms in favor of urban sprawl and private towns. 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.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
650		0	_aWater supply _9187448 _xEconomic aspects.
650		0	_aWater consumption _9187415 _xEconomic aspects.
650		0	_aWater resources development.
650		0	_aBottled water industry.
650		0	_aWater utilities.
650		0	_aWater security.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aPiper, Karen _tPrice of Thirst _dMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,c2014 _z9780816695423
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
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