Water Under Threat

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Zed Books, 2006 - 208 pages

Water has been described as 'the oil of the 21st century' with rapid population growth, climate change and pollution conspiring to make it the resource over which wars may be fought in years to come. But does water have a price? Is it a right or a need?

Increasingly, water is viewed as a commodity whose function is to generate profits. In this book, Larbi Bouguerra argues that instead we should view it as a common good of humanity. Water has an exceptional cross-cultural symbolic value and its use raises enormous questions about our lifestyle, our ethics and our relationship to nature. Bouguerra makes a powerful case for a society that is more economical with water and manages it openly and democratically, as a global resource.

 

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Introduction
1
Unparalleled symbolism
9
research continues
37
The problem of distribution and management
49
Geostrategy power and struggles
58
Water and conflicts
65
A painful issue in Algeria
74
A water crisis?
87
A common good coveted by the market
96
Water and health
125
IO Pollution in many different forms
142
The question of dams
159
Water and development ethics
175
Notes
184
Further reading
196
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Mohamed Larbi Bouguerra works at the Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World, where he is in charge of the Water Programme. He was previously Professor of Science at Tunis University, and Associate Director of Research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). Mohamed Larbi Bouguerra works at the Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World, where he is in charge of the Water Programme. He was previously Professor of Science at Tunis University, and Associate Director of Research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).

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