Poisoned spring : the EU and water privatisation / Kartika Liotard and Steven P. McGiffen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Liotard, Kartika.

Contributor:

McGiffen, Steven Paul.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water utilities--Deregulation--European Union countries.

Water utilities.

Water-supply--Political aspects--European Union countries.

Water-supply.

Water-supply--Economic aspects--European Union countries.

Water-supply--Economic aspects.

Water-supply--Political aspects.

Deregulation.

European Union countries.

Physical Description:

x, 272 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Pluto Press, 2009.

Summary:

Vast numbers of people have no access to safe drinking water, and even more lack any kind of effective sanitation. Most of the world's water supply remains in public ownership. Neither drought nor flood is as much a meteorological phenomenon as it is the result of mismananagement. So is privatisation the route to solving this most urgent of problems? The authors argue that, on the contrary, neoliberal economics and the power structures responsible for widening global inequalities are blocking the way to progress towards universal provision of safe water and effective sanitation. Behind these malign influences stands the growing power of the European Union and the corporations in whose interests it operates. On the basis of an analysis of the political economy of water and of the European Union's policies, Poisoned Spring will place the problem of water supply in the broad context of corporate control of the world's resources.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-239) and index.

ISBN:

9780745327891

0745327893

9780745327884

0745327885

OCLC:

424450904