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WHAT TO READ ABOUT WATER AND THE RISK OF WAR

January 16, 2016 / Glen Reynolds

Here is a healthy selection of material which helps us understand why war in the 21st century is likely to be over water and our planet’s ownership and consumption of that most basic of resources.

 

  • Blue Gold, The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World’s Water, by Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, published by The New Press, 2002, ISBN 1-56584-731-8
  • Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit, by Vandana Shiva, published by South End Press, 2002, ISBN 0-89608-650-X
  • Global Water Grab – How Corporations Are Planning to Take Control of Local Water Services,
    Polaris Institute, http://www.polarisinstitute.org/pubs/pubs_pdfs/gwg_english.pdf
  • Will the World Bank Back Down? …Water Privatization in a Climate of Global Protest, a special report by Public Citizen’s ‘Water for All’ program, http://www.citizen.org/documents/worldbank2004.pdf
  • Every Drop for Sale: Our Desperate Battle Over Water in a World About to Run Out, by Jeffrey Rothfeder, published by Jeremy P. Tarcher, 2004, ISBN 158542367X
  • The World’s Water, The Biennial Report of Freshwater Resources 2002-2004, by Peter Gleick, published by Island Press, 2002, ISBN 1-55963-949-0
  • Water Follies, Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America’s Fresh Waters, by Robert Glennon, published by Island Press, 2002, ISBN 1-55963-223-2
  • Whose Water Is It?, The Unquenchable Thirst of a Water-Hungry World, edited by Bernadette McDonald and Douglas Jehl, published by National Geographic Society, 2003, ISBN 0-7922-6238-7
  • Inside the Bottle – An Exposé of the Bottled Water Industry, by Tony Clarke, published by the Polaris Institute, 2005,
  • The Water Barons, The Center for Public Integrity, http://www.icij.org/water/
  • Trading Away Our Water- How Trade Agreements Promote Corporate Water Profiteering and What Citizens Can Do to Stop the Corporate Attack, Alliance for Democracy, http://www.thealliancefordemocracy.org/html/eng/2122-AA.shtml
  • Water, by Marq de Villiers, publ. by Stoddart Publishing Co. Limited, 2000, ISBN: 0618127445

 

 

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