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02777aam a2200421 i 4500 001 0CDECAB8760311E4B167C5DBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20141127010016 008 140529s2014 mnua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2014019914 020 $a 0816695423 (hc : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780816695423 (hc : alk. paper) 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCF $d UOK $d OCLCO $d TWC $d UKMGB $d CDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a HD1691 $b .P486 2014 100 1 $a Piper, Karen Lynnea, $d 1965- $e author. 245 14 $a The price of thirst : $b global water inequality and the coming chaos / $c Karen Piper. 264 1 $a Minneapolis : $b University of Minnesota Press, $c [2014] 300 $a xii, 289 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Water hoarding in a California drought -- How a coup opened Chile's water markets -- South Africa's water apartheid -- Mother Ganga is not for sale -- A revolution of the thirsty in Egypt -- Targeting Iraq's water -- Conclusion: imagining a water-secure world. 520 $a "There's Money in Thirst," reads a headline in the New York Times. The CEO of NestleÌ, 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. 650 0 $a Water-supply $x Economic aspects. 650 0 $a Water consumption $x Economic aspects. 650 0 $a Water resources development. 650 0 $a Bottled water industry. 650 0 $a Water utilities. 650 0 $a Water security. 941 $a 7 952 $l UGPF911 $d 20231207014410.0 952 $l CEAX572 $d 20200508021515.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191217024547.0 952 $l MMPE553 $d 20180719042405.0 952 $l UXAX826 $d 20151023012748.0 952 $l HWAX074 $d 20150326013018.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20141127010152.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0CDECAB8760311E4B167C5DBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search