Reflected in water : a crisis of social responsibility
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Reflected in water : a crisis of social responsibility
（Global issues）
Cassell, 1997
- : hard
- : pbk
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Description
Water is the primary requirement for human existence, belonging to all. Yet from privatization in Britain to the displacement of millions by dam-building in the developing world, it has been appropriated as a commodity by the powerful. This wide-ranging text examines the unequal distribution of water on a global scale. Export crops are irrigated, subsistence crops wither, and yet all through history local communities have devised ways of ensuring fair shares of a vital and limited resource. This book reasserts the claim for local community control of access to water.
Table of Contents
- Sharing a common good
- avoiding the "Tragedy of the Commons"
- hydraulic societies and regional hopes
- the lure of the dam
- fighting over water
- small and local
- the women at the well
- marketizing water
- the unequal world of water
- dirty water
- a confluence of crises
- the delights of water. Appendix: information and action.
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