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Book SynopsisA world-renowned environmentalist , Shiva examines the ‘water wars’ of the twenty-first century: the aggressive privatisation by the multinationals of communal water rights.
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Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part 1: Theoretical Underpinnings of the Global Water Crisis
1. Water Rights: The State, the Market, the Community
2. Water Cycles vs. Markets Cycles: When Ecology Clashes with Commerce
3. The World on the Edge
Part II: Privatization: The Culture of Scarcity and Water Conflicts
4. Intensive Irrigation, Large Dams and Water Conflicts
5. Mining and Water Conflicts
6. Aquaculture and Water Shortage
Part III: Sustainable Use
7. Converting Scarcity into Abundance
8. Culture and the Value of Nature: The Sea as Paradigm
Part IV: Resistance
9. Our Vanishing Waters