The Last Drop

The Politics of Water

By: Mike Gonzalez, Marianella Yanes

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Paperback | 20 September 2015 | Edition Number 1

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Indispensable for human existence yet increasingly owned and controlled by private capital; the last decade has witnessed an intensifying battle for water. The Last Drop is a wake-up call to everyone who takes for granted what comes out of their kitchen tap.

This book traces a path through the arguments that surround the question of water, setting out to make the scientific arguments more accessible and the political questions more urgent. The exploding profits of the multinational companies which dominate the water industry are testimony to how high the stakes are - by 2012 it had become a worth a trillion dollars.

Against the market fundamentalists, the authors argue that it is both possible and necessary that considerations of equity and social justice prevail. They call for our water supply to be saved from subordination to the whims of the multinationals and placed under direct democratic public control.

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'Seminal''Water is a resource that belongs to all of us, and this perceptive book takes issue with the way global capitalism has redefined water as a commodity, and depicts the bitter harvest that has resulted from water privatisation.''A definitive analysis of the current world water challenge. To understand the "crisis of governance" that has changed water as a human right to a profitable commodity for financial interests, you must read The Last Drop.''In this sobering account of hydro-politics, Gonzalez and Yanes remind us that human greed - not environmental inadequacy - lies at the heart of the global water 'crisis'.''Books like this are rare. Eloquent, poetic, enraged, committed, Marxist, environmentalist, written from the Global South, a book full of fire.''A grim reminder and a wake-up call to liberate water from the predominant notion that 'whoever controls water controls society'''A positive, necessary, and timely introduction to the mammoth global problems we will face for some time to come'

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