Keywords:
Water-supply - Economic aspects.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
In this "chilling, in-depth examination of a rapidly emerging global crisis" (In These Times), Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, two of the most active opponents to the privatization of water show how, contrary to received wisdom, water mainly flows uphill to the wealthy. Our most basic resource may one day be limited: our consumption doubles every twenty years--twice the rate of population increase. At the same time, increasingly transnational corporations are plotting to control the world's dwindling water supply. In England and France, where water has already been privatized, rates have soared, and water shortages have been severe. The major bottled-water producers--Perrier, Evian, Naya, and now Coca-Cola and PepsiCo--are part of one of the fastest-growing and least-regulated industries, buying up freshwater rights and drying up crucial supplies. A truly shocking expos#65533; that is a call to arms to people around the world, Blue Gold shows in frightening detail why, as the vice president of the World Bank has pronounced, "The wars of the next century will be about water.".
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (395 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781595586230
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=782079
DDC:
333.91
Language:
English
Note:
Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- TREATY INITIATIVE -- PART I - THE CRISIS -- 1 - RED ALERT -- FINITE SUPPLIES -- MULTIPLE THREATS -- DRYING PLANET -- FRANTIC SEARCH -- PARCHED AMERICA -- DESPERATE MEXICO -- MID-EAST CRISIS -- CHINA'S "MIRACLE" -- SPREADING DISASTER -- RED ALERT -- 2 - ENDANGERED PLANET -- TOXIC RUNOFF: SEWAGE AND CHEMICALS -- TOXIC WORLD WATER SYSTEMS -- LOSING THE GREAT LAKES -- WETLAND LOSS -- DEFORESTATION -- GLOBAL WARMING -- INVASIVE SPECIES -- OVERIRRIGATION AND NONSUSTAINABLE FARMING -- DAMS AND RESERVOIRS -- 3 - DYING OF THIRST -- LETHAL WATERS -- UNEQUAL ACCESS -- ELITE PRIVILEGE -- FOOD SCARCITY -- DAM FALLOUT -- WATER CONFLICTS -- NATURE AND POWER -- BORDER STRUGGLES -- PRIVATE VS. PUBLIC CONTROL OF WATER -- PART II - THE POLITICS -- 4 - EVERYTHING FOR SALE -- ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION -- TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS -- COMMODIFYING NATURE -- PRIVATIZATION SCHEMES -- FINANCIAL SPECULATION -- INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS -- CORPORATE STATES -- 5 - GLOBAL WATER LORDS -- BLUE BONANZA -- THE LORDS OF WATER -- SUEZ CONQUESTS -- VIVENDI'S EMPIRE -- ENRON'S GAMBLE -- NEW CONTENDERS -- PRIVATIZED FIASCO -- 6 - EMERGENT WATER CARTEL -- PIPELINE CORRIDORS -- SUPERTANKERS -- GRAND CANALS -- WATER BAG SCHEMES -- BOTTLED WATER -- COKE WATER -- GLOBAL CARTEL -- 7 - GLOBAL NEXUS -- CORPORATE MASSAGES -- INTERNATIONAL FINANCE -- WORLD TRADE -- GATS 2000 -- REGIONAL BLOCS -- INVESTMENT TREATIES -- PART III - THE WAY FORWARD -- 8 - FIGHTBACK -- PUBLIC CONTROL -- FIGHTING PRIVATIZATION -- WATER EXPORTS -- WATER QUALITY -- RESTORING WATER SYSTEMS -- STOPPING DAMS -- INTERNATIONAL STRUGGLES -- 9 - THE STANDPOINT -- CROSSROADS -- THE WATER COMMONS -- WATER STEWARDSHIP -- WATER EQUALITY -- WATER UNIVERSALITY -- WATER PEACE -- TEN PRINCIPLES -- 10 - THE WAY FORWARD -- WATER PRESERVATION.
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WATER EQUITY -- TEN STEPS TO WATER SECURITY -- NOTES -- INDEX -- Copyright Page.
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