Download e-book for kindle: Thirst: Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water by Alan Snitow,Deborah Kaufman,Michael Fox

By Alan Snitow,Deborah Kaufman,Michael Fox

Out of sight of so much americans, worldwide organisations like Nestlé, Suez, and Veolia are quickly procuring up our neighborhood water sources—lakes, streams, and springs—and taking regulate of public water prone. of their force to denationalise and commodify water, they've got manipulated and acquired politicians, clinched backroom bargains, and subverted the democratic approach through attempting to deny voters a voice in primary judgements approximately their such a lot crucial public source.

The authors' PBS documentary Thirst confirmed how groups world wide are resisting the privatization and commodification of water. Thirst, the booklet, choices up the place the documentary left off, revealing the emergence of debatable new water wars within the usa and exhibiting how groups listed here are battling this conflict, frequently opposed to businesses centered overseas.

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