While draught and desertification are intensifying around the world, corporations are aggressively converting free-flowing water into bottled profits. The water wars of the twenty-first century may match-or even surpass-the oil wars of the twentieth. In Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit, Vandana Shiva, "the world’s most prominent radical scientist" (the Guardian), shines a light on activists who are fighting corporate maneuvers to convert this life-sustaining resource into more gold for the elites.
In Water Wars, Shiva uses her remarkable knowledge of science and society tooutline the emergence of corporate culture and the historical erosion of communal water rights. Using the international water trade and industrial activities such as damming, mining, and aquafarming as her lens, Shiva exposes the destruction of the earth and the disenfranchisement of the world’s poor as they are stripped of rights to a precious common good.
In her passionate, feminist style, Shiva celebrates the spiritual and traditional role water has played in communities throughout history, and warns that water privatization threatens cultures and livelihoods worldwide. Shiva calls for a movement to preserve water access for all, and offers a blueprint for global resistance based on examples of successful campaigns.
vandana shiva is a world-renowned environmental leader and recipient of the 1993 Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (the Right Livelihood Award). She is author of several books, including Owuwe ihe ubi ezuru: Mwepu nke ihe oriri zuru ụwa ọnụ(South ọgwụgwụ Press, 2000); Biopiracy: Elukọrọ ihe okike na ihe ọmụma(South ọgwụgwụ Press, 1997); and Ingnọ Ndụ(St. Martin's Press, 1989). Shiva is a leader, along with Ralph Nader and Jeremy Rifkin, in the International Forum on Globalization. Before becoming an activist, Shiva was one of India’s leading physicists.
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A world-renowned environmental leader presents an expose of the privatization of water that threatens the livelihood of the people in the South.
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Onye ndu gburugburu ụwa ama ama na onye natara 1993 Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (The Right Livelihood Award), Shiva edepụtala ọtụtụ akwụkwọ kacha ere ahịa, kacha nso nso a Earth Democracy. Onye na-eme ihe ike na ọkà mmụta sayensị, Shiva na-edu, ya na Ralph Nader na Jeremy Rifkin, International Forum on Globalization. Tupu ọ bụrụ onye na-eme ihe ike, Shiva bụ otu n'ime ndị ọkà mmụta sayensị na India.