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Thirst: Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water
Alan Snitow
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Description for Thirst: Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water
Hardcover. Thirst shows how average citizens in communities across the U.S. are fighting multinational corporations and their supporters to maintain public control of our water and most necessary resource. We are at the tipping point in the new global water wars, and the United States is a major front. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JFFC; RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 26. Weight in Grams: 484.
Out of sight of most Americans, global corporations like Nestlé, Suez, and Veolia are rapidly buying up our local water sources—lakes, streams, and springs—and taking control of public water services. In their drive to privatize and commodify water, they have manipulated and bought politicians, clinched backroom deals, and subverted the democratic process by trying to deny citizens a voice in fundamental decisions about their most essential public resource.
Out of sight of most Americans, global corporations like Nestlé, Suez, and Veolia are rapidly buying up our local water sources—lakes, streams, and springs—and taking control of public water services. In their drive to privatize and commodify water, they have manipulated and bought politicians, clinched backroom deals, and subverted the democratic process by trying to deny citizens a voice in fundamental decisions about their most essential public resource.
The authors' PBS documentary Thirst showed how communities around the world are resisting the privatization and commodification of water. Thirst, the book, picks up where the documentary left off, revealing the emergence ... Read more
Read a review...http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/18/RVGS9OHPKT1.DTL
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780787984588
SKU
V9780787984588
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About Alan Snitow
Alan Snitow is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist. Kaufman and Snitow's films include Thirst, Secrets of Silicon Valley, and Blacks and Jews. Deborah Kaufman is a film producer, director, and writer. Michael Fox is a film critic, journalist, and teacher.
Reviews for Thirst: Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water
2008 Nautilus Book Awards Gold Winner in the category of Conscious Media/Journalism "...an interesting read, well-written and thoroughly documented… completed by 50 pages of careful notes and references, helpful and informative." (World Business, March 2007) Is water a human right or a commodity to be marketed for profit? Should water be run by local governments or by ... Read more