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Indlæser... Thirst: Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Wateraf Alan Snitow, Deborah Kaufman
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Out of sight of most Americans, global corporations likeNestlé, Suez, and Veolia are rapidly buying up our local watersources?lakes, streams, and springs?and taking controlof public water services. In their drive to privatize and commodifywater, they have manipulated and bought politicians, clinchedbackroom deals, and subverted the democratic process by trying todeny citizens a voice in fundamental decisions about their mostessential public resource. The authors' PBS documentary Thirst showed howcommunities around the world are resisting the privatization andcommodification of water. Thirst, the book,picks up where the documentary left off, revealing the emergence ofcontroversial new water wars in the United States and showing howcommunities here are fighting this battle, often against companiesheadquartered overseas. Read areview...http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/18/RVGS9OHPKT1.DTL No library descriptions found. |
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