Reflected in Water: A Crisis of Social Responsibility

by Colin Ward

Water is the primary requirement for human existence, belonging to all. Yet from privatization in Britain to the displacement of millions by dam-building in the developing world, it has been appropriated as a commodity by the powerful. This wide-ranging text examines the unequal distribution of water on a global scale. Export crops are irrigated, subsistence crops wither, and yet all through history local communities have devised ways of ensuring...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0304335681
• ISBN13: 9780304335688
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Cassell
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.5"