Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water - Softcover

Barlow, Maude; Clarke, Tony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565848136 ISBN 13: 9781565848139

Publisher: The New Press, 2005

Synopsis

In this chilling, in-depth examination of a rapidly emerging global crisis” (In These Times), Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, two of the most active opponents to the privatization of water show how, contrary to received wisdom, water mainly flows uphill to the wealthy. Our most basic resource may one day be limited: our consumption doubles every twenty years twice the rate of population increase. At the same time, increasingly transnational corporations are plotting to control the world’s dwindling water supply. In England and France, where water has already been privatized, rates have soared, and water shortages have been severe. The major bottled-water producers Perrier, Evian, Naya, and now Coca-Cola and PepsiCo are part of one of the fastest-growing and least-regulated industries, buying up freshwater rights and drying up crucial supplies.

A truly shocking exposé that is a call to arms to people around the world, Blue Gold shows in frightening detail why, as the vice president of the World Bank has pronounced, The wars of the next century will be about water.”

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Review:

A call to arms.... The dire scenarios laid out in this comprehensive book are truly frightening.

About the Author:

Maude Barlow is the National Chairperson of The Council of Canadians, a Director with the International Forum on Globalization, and co-founder of the Blue Planet Project. She is the best-selling author or co-author of 13 books. Tony Clarke is the director of the Polaris Institute of Canada, and chairs the committee on corporations for the International Forum on Globalization. Together, Barlow and Clarke have co-authored three books on the Multilateral Agreement on Investment, and were the Canadian leaders in the successful struggle to scuttle that deal.

About this edition

• Publisher: The New Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1565848136
• ISBN 13: 9781565848139
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304