| Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water Contributor(s): Barlow, Maude (Author), Clarke, Tony (Author) |
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ISBN: 1565847318 ISBN-13: 9781565847316 Publisher: New Press OUR PRICE: $23.36 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Environmental - Water Supply - Nature | Natural Resources - Business & Economics | Corporate & Business History - General |
| Dewey: 333.91 |
| Physical Information: 1.03" H x 6.48" W x 9.42" (1.33 lbs) 278 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In a shocking expose, Blue Gold, available now in paperback, shows why, as the vice president of the World Bank has pronounced, "The wars of the next century will be about water." 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 companies--Perrier, Evian, Naya, and now Coca-Cola and PepsiCo--head one of the fastest growing and least regulated industries, bying up fresh water rights and drying up crucial reserves. Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, two of the most active opponents to this trend, show how the corporate giants act in their own interest and how, contrary to received wisdom, water flows uphill to the wealthy who can afford it. The consumption of water doubles every twenty years--more than twice the rate of the increase in human population. Blue Gold captures in striking detail the forces behind the depletion of the world's fresh water, and the human and ecological impacts it entails. |