| Description |
xvi, 156 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : converting abundance to scarcity -- Water rights : the state, the market, the community -- Climate change and the water crisis -- The colonization of rivers : dams and water wars -- The world bank, the WTO, and corporate control over water -- Food and water -- Converting scarcity into abundance -- The sacred waters. |
| Summary |
Vandana Shiva uses her knowledge of science and society to analyze the historical erosion of communal water rights. Examining the international water trade, damming, mining, and aquafarming, Shiva exposes the destruction of the earth and the disenfranchisement of the world's poor as they are stripped of their right to a precious common good. |
| Subject |
Water-supply.
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Water rights.
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Water -- Pollution.
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Water resources development.
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| ISBN |
089608650X |
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0896086518 |
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