Last drop : the politics of water / Mike Gonzalez and Marianella Yanes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gonzalez, Mike, 1943- author.

Yanes, Marianella, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water-supply--Political aspects.

Water-supply.

Water utilities--Privatization.

Water utilities.

Water utilities--Political aspects.

Privatization.

Physical Description:

xi, 202 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Politics of water

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press, 2015.

Summary:

Indispensable for human existence yet increasingly owned and controlled by private capital; the last decade has witnessed an intensifying battle for water. The Last Drop is a wake-up call to everyone who takes for granted what comes out of their kitchen tap.This book traces a path through the arguments that surround the question of water, setting out to make the scientific arguments more accessible and the political questions more urgent. The exploding profits of the multinational companies which dominate the water industry are testimony to how high the stakes are - by 2012 it had become a worth a trillion dollars.Against the market fundamentalists, the authors argue that it is both possible and necessary that considerations of equity and social justice prevail. They call for our water supply to be saved from subordination to the whims of the multinationals and placed under direct democratic public control.

Contents:

A floating planet

How water was privatised

Disasters, natural and otherwise

A short trip through Amazonia

Bitter Harvests

Virtual Water

Water and global warming

Ya Basta! Enough is enough!

What is to be done?

A new world water order.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references and index.

ISBN:

9780745334929

074533492X

9780745334912

0745334911

OCLC:

907186811