Water under threat
"Rapid population growth, climate change and pollution have combined 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 with 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."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2006
White Lotus ; Fernwood Pub. ; Books for Change ; SIRD ; David Philip ; Zed ; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, Bangkok, Thailand, Black Point, Nova Scotia, Bangalore, India, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Cape Town, South Africa, London, New York, 2006
208 pages ; 21 cm.
9781842777046, 9781842777053, 9781552662021, 1842777041, 184277705X, 1552662020
67922656
1. Unparalleled symbolism
2. Science and water : research continues
3. The problem of distribution and management
4. Geostrategy, power and struggles
5. Water and conflicts
6. A painful issue in Algeria
7. A water crisis?
8. A common good coveted by the market
9. Water and health
10. Pollution in many different forms
11. The question of dams
12. Water and development ethics
13. Reasons for hope?
Translation of: Les batailles de l'eau
Translated from French