The price of thirst : global water inequality and the coming chaos
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Published
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014].
ISBN
9780816695423 (hardback : acidfree paper), 9780816695423, 0816695423
Physical Desc
xii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Status
Adult Nonfiction (3rd floor)
NF 333.91 PIPER 2014
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NF 333.91 PIPER 2014
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Published
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014].
Format
Book
Language
English
ISBN
9780816695423 (hardback : acidfree paper), 9780816695423, 0816695423
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
"There's Money in Thirst," reads a headline in the New York Times. The CEO of Nestlé, purveyor of bottled water, heartily agrees. It is important to give water a market value, he says in a promotional video, so "we're all aware that it has a price." But for those who have no access to clean water, a fifth of the world's population, the price is thirst. This is the frightening landscape that Karen Piper conducts us through in The Price of Thirst--one where thirst is political, drought is a business opportunity, and more and more of our most necessary natural resource is controlled by multinational corporations. The product of seven years of investigation across six continents and a dozen countries, and scores of interviews with CEOs, activists, environmentalists, and climate change specialists, The Price of Thirst paints a harrowing picture of a world out of balance, with the distance between the haves and have-nots of water inexorably widening and the coming crisis moving ever closer.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Piper, K. L. (2014). The price of thirst: global water inequality and the coming chaos . University of Minnesota Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Piper, Karen Lynnea, 1965-. 2014. The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos. University of Minnesota Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Piper, Karen Lynnea, 1965-. The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos University of Minnesota Press, 2014.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Piper, Karen Lynnea. The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos University of Minnesota Press, 2014.
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