The last drop : the politics of water /

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Author / Creator:Gonzalez, Mike, 1943- author.
Imprint:London : Pluto Press, 2015.
©2015
Description:xi, 202 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10505935
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Varying Form of Title:Politics of water
Other authors / contributors:Yanes, Marianella, author.
ISBN:9780745334929
074533492X
9780745334912
0745334911
9781783715206
1783715200
9781783715220
1783715227
9781783715213
1783715219
Notes:Includes bibliographic references and index.
Summary:The one indispensable resource, water is increasingly controlled and even owned by private capital. By 2012, water was a trillion-dollar industry--and as population growth, industrial production, and ecological change make scarcity ever-more common, water may well become the source of military and political conflict in the years to come. This book looks at how we got here and what we can and should do next. Laying out the complex arguments surrounding water, its ownership and access to it, Mike Gonzalez and Marianella Yanes make the technical and scientific aspects of the discussion clear and accessible--and thereby enable themselves to make the political questions more urgent. Pushing back against the market fundamentalists, the authors argue that it is both possible and necessary that considerations of equity and social justice prevail in the debates about water. Powerful and polemical, The Last Drop will be a vital resource for water activists worldwide.--Amazon.com

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