Reflected in Water: A Crisis of Social Responsibility (Global Issues)

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 fair shares of a vital and limited resource. This book reasserts the claim for local community control of access to water.

• 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"