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The price of thirst : global water inequality and the coming chaos / Karen Piper.

by Piper, Karen Lynnea, 1965-

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University of Minnesota Press, [2014]

Water-supply -- Economic aspects.

Water consumption -- Economic aspects.

Water resources development.

Bottled water industry.

Water utilities.

Water security.

9780816695423 (hc.)

0816695423 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Thirst : global water inequality and the coming chaos

xii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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 -- 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 author 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.

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