Thirst

Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water

Alan Snitow, Deborah Kaufman, Michael Fox (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2007
Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S. (Verlag)
978-0-7879-8458-8 (ISBN)

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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.

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 of controversial new water wars in the United States and showing how communities here are fighting this battle, often against companies headquartered overseas.

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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.

Preface. Acknowledgments.

1. Water: Commodity or Human Right?

Battles for Water in the West.

2. Hardball vs. the High Road.

Stockton, California.

3. Small-Town Surprise for a Corporate Water Giant.

Felton, California.

Scandals in the South.

4. The Price of Incompetence.

Atlanta, Georgia.

5. The Hundred-Year War.

Lexington, Kentucky.

New England Skirmishes.

6. Keeping the Companies at Bay.

Lee, Massachusetts.

7. Cooking the Numbers.

Holyoke, Massachusetts.

Corporate Target: The Great Lakes.

8. When Nestlé Comes.

Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin.

9. To Quench a Thirst.

Mecosta County, Michigan.

10. Whose Water, Whose World Is It?

Notes.

Resources.

Index.

The Authors.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	5.4.2007
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 236 mm
Gewicht	494 g
Einbandart	gebunden
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Politik / Gesellschaft
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7879-8458-2 / 0787984582
ISBN-13	978-0-7879-8458-8 / 9780787984588
Zustand	Neuware