International tensions around water are rising in many of the world's most volatile regions. The policy recipe pursued by the West, and imposed on governments elsewhere, is to pass control over water to private interests, which simply accelerates the cycle of inequality and deprivation. California, as well as China, South Africa, Mexico and countries on every continent already face a crisis. This book exposes the enormity of the problem, the dangers of the proposed solution and the alternative, which is to recognize access to water as a fundamental human right, not dependent on ability to...
International tensions around water are rising in many of the world's most volatile regions. The policy recipe pursued by the West, and imposed on gov...
Global water consumption is doubling every 20 years, much faster than population growth. Water supplies, such as the huge Ogallala aquifer under the American mid-west, on which the country's grain basket depends, are drying up or being polluted, and international tensions around water are rising inexorably in many of the world's most volatile regions.
Global water consumption is doubling every 20 years, much faster than population growth. Water supplies, such as the huge Ogallala aquifer under the A...
In a book hailed by Publishers Weekly as a passionate plea for access to water activism, Blue Covenant addresses an environmental crisis thattogether with global warmingposes one of the gravest threats to our survival. How did the world s most vital resource become imperiled? And what must we do to pull back from the brink? In stark and nearly devastating prose (Booklist), world-renowned activist and bestselling author Maude Barlowwho is featured in the acclaimed documentary Flowdiscusses the state of the world s water. Barlow examines how water companies are...
In a book hailed by Publishers Weekly as a passionate plea for access to water activism, Blue Covenant addresses an environmental crisis...
