[Download ebook] Contested Water: The Struggle Against Water Privatization in the United States and Canada (Urban and Industrial Environments)
❀ Joanna L. Robinson ❀
| #4004639 in Books | The MIT Press | 2013-03-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.44 x6.00l,1.02 | File Name: 0262018853 | 254 pages |
||0 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Nice polemic ... inadequate journalism.|By WetmoreDescendants|Joanna Robinson omits, or failed to discover, a number of salient facts with respect to Stockton. 1. She calls it "privatization". It wasn't. It involved no sale of assets, no transfer of possession or control. It was a long-term services contract for operation of the water and wastewater systems, plus compl||| Contested Water provides an orientation toward water resources that is badly needed in social science literature. It departs from the general pattern of overly technical water books. Instead of embracing a one-size-fits-all integrated water managemen
Attempts by local governments to privatize water services have met with furious opposition. Activists argue that to give private companies control of the water supply is to turn water from a common resource into a marketized commodity. Moreover, to cede local power to a global corporation puts communities at the center of controversies over economic globalization. In Contested Water, Joanna Robinson examines local social movement organizing against water priva...
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