| Description |
xv, 287 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-272) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Water: commodity or human right? -- Battles for water in the West -- 2. Hard ball vs. the high road : Stockton, California -- 3. Small-town surprise for a corporate water giant : Felton, California -- Scandals in the South : 4. The price of incompetence : Atlanta, Georgia -- 5. The hundred-year war : Lexington, Kentucky -- New England skirmishes -- 6. Keeping the companies at bay : Lee, Massachusetts -- 7. Cooking the numbers : Holyoke, Massachusetts -- Corporate target : the Great Lakes -- 8. When Nestlé comes : Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin -- 9. To quench a thirst : Mecosta County, Michigan -- 10. Whose water, whose world is it? |
| Subject |
Water resources development -- Social aspects.
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Privatization -- Social aspects.
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| Added Author |
Kaufman, Deborah, 1955-
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Fox, Michael, 1955-
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| ISBN |
9780787984588 (cloth) |
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0787984582 (cloth) |
| OCLC # |
77012751 |
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