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100 1  Piper, Karen Lynnea,|d1965-|eauthor. 
245 14 The price of thirst :|bglobal water inequality and the 
       coming chaos /|cKaren Piper. 
264  1 Minneapolis :|bUniversity of Minnesota Press,|c[2014] 
300    xii, 289 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  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. 
520    "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. 
650  0 Water-supply|xEconomic aspects. 
650  0 Water consumption|xEconomic aspects. 
650  0 Water resources development. 
650  0 Bottled water industry. 
650  0 Water utilities. 
650  0 Water security. 
650  7 Bottled water industry.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00837025 
650  7 Water consumption|xEconomic aspects.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst01171652 
650  7 Water resources development.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01171955 
650  7 Water security.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01795729 
650  7 Water-supply|xEconomic aspects.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01172370 
650  7 Water utilities.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01172219 
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