Poisoned Spring: The EU and Water Privatisation - Softcover

Liotard, Kartika

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745327885 ISBN 13: 9780745327884

Publisher: Pluto Press, 2009

Synopsis

"Vast numbers of people have no access to safe drinking water, and even more lack any kind of effective sanitation. Most of the world's water supply remains in public ownership. Neither drought nor flood is as much a meteorological phenomenon as it is the result of mismananagement. So is privatisation the route to solving this most urgent of problems? The authors argue that, on the contrary, neoliberal economics and the power structures responsible for widening global inequalities are blocking the way to progress towards universal provision of safe water and effective sanitation. Behind these malign influences stands the growing power of the European Union and the corporations in whose interests it operates. On the basis of an analysis of the political economy of water and of the European Union's policies, Poisoned Spring will place the problem of water supply in the broad context of corporate control of the world's resources."

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About the Authors

Kartika Liotard was elected to the European Parliament in 2004 and represents the Socialist Party of the Netherlands. She is a member of the parliamentary committees on the Environment and Public Health, on Agriculture and on Women's Rights. She is the author of Poisoned Spring (Pluto, 2009).

Steven P. McGiffen was a writer and translator based at the American Graduate School in Paris. He worked for the United Left Group in the European Parliament, as an advisor to the Socialist Party of the Netherlands and as editor of Spectre. He is the author of Biotechnology, Poisoned Spring and The European Union.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0745327885
• ISBN 13: 9780745327884
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288