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

By:

Piper, Karen Lynnea, 1965-

Material type: Text

TextDescription: xii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:

9780816695423 (hc : alk. paper)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

333.91 23 PI PR

LOC classification:

HD1691 .P486 2014

Summary: "A wonderful book—full of commitment, deeply moving, with stories of real people affected by corporate water grabs. I highly recommend The Price of Thirst." —Maude Barlow, chair of the board of Food & Water Watch "Will conflicts over water define the 21st century as the battle to control oil did the 20th? Karen Piper gives us a vivid, inside view of the bizarre world of the water privatizers and their friends in the World Bank. She also offers inspiring account of their opponents: the emerging global movement to make clean water a universal human right." —Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums "Tack-sharp reportage. Piper’s report makes for anxious yet informative reading." —Kirkus Reviews "Dr. Piper has written an eye-opening book about a hotly contested vital resource. She balances her post-colonial theoretical foundation with ground truthing in the best traditions of participant-observation and investigative reporting. The outcome is a deeply moving exposé of how ordinary people’s lives can be altered irrevocably by corporate greed." —New York Journal of Books "Essential for the reader interested in global poverty and human rights and those who enjoyed Thomas Nazario’s Living on a Dollar a Day." —Library Journal "Piper’s work is a fascinating exposé, revealing the scathingly obscene measures corporations have taken to preserve their precious source of profit." —Vox Magazine

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Bahrain BAS-ECN	Business Studies	333.91 PI PR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		3000002349

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-276) and index.

"A wonderful book—full of commitment, deeply moving, with stories of real people affected by corporate water grabs. I highly recommend The Price of Thirst." —Maude Barlow, chair of the board of Food & Water Watch

"Will conflicts over water define the 21st century as the battle to control oil did the 20th? Karen Piper gives us a vivid, inside view of the bizarre world of the water privatizers and their friends in the World Bank. She also offers inspiring account of their opponents: the emerging global movement to make clean water a universal human right." —Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums

"Tack-sharp reportage. Piper’s report makes for anxious yet informative reading." —Kirkus Reviews

"Dr. Piper has written an eye-opening book about a hotly contested vital resource. She balances her post-colonial theoretical foundation with ground truthing in the best traditions of participant-observation and investigative reporting. The outcome is a deeply moving exposé of how ordinary people’s lives can be altered irrevocably by corporate greed." —New York Journal of Books

"Essential for the reader interested in global poverty and human rights and those who enjoyed Thomas Nazario’s Living on a Dollar a Day." —Library Journal

"Piper’s work is a fascinating exposé, revealing the scathingly obscene measures corporations have taken to preserve their precious source of profit." —Vox Magazine

The online book link:

https://www.amazon.com/Price-Thirst-Global-Inequality-Coming/dp/0816695423/ref=sr_1_1?crid=8OKBOWCXB7R9&keywords=9780816695423&qid=1648099524&sprefix=9780816695423%2Caps%2C390&sr=8-1

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