Water resources in Mexico: scarcity, degradation, stress, conflicts, managem…
by Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (Mexico), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México., Centro Regional de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias, Oswald, Ursula, Red Temática del Agua., Congreso Nacional, Cocoyoc, Mexico)
fromHexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace
In this ?chilling, in-depth examination of a rapidly emerging global crisis" (In These Times), Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, two of the most active opponents to the privatization of water show how, contrary to received wisdom, water mainly flows uphill to the wealthy. Our most b…
"Increasingly, transnational corporations are plotting to control the world's dwindling water supply. In England and France, where water has already been privatized, rates have soared and water shortages have been severe. The major bottled-water producers - Perrier, Evian, Naya,…