The last drop : : the politics of water / / Mike Gonzalez and Marianella Yanes.

The one indispensable resource, water is increasingly controlled and even owned by private capital. By 2012, water was a trillion-dollar industry--and as population growth, industrial production, and ecological change make scarcity ever-more common, water may well become the source of military and p...

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Place / Publishing House:London : : Pluto Press,, 2015.
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 202 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • A floating planet
  • How water was privatised
  • Disasters, natural and otherwise
  • A short trip through Amazonia
  • Bitter harvests
  • Virtual water
  • Water and global warming
  • Ya basta! Enough is enough!
  • What is to be done?
  • A new world water order.