Acclaimed author and award-winning scientist and activist Vandana Shiva
lucidly details the severity of the global water shortage, calling the
water crisis "the most pervasive, most severe, and most invisible
dimension of the ecological devastation of the earth." She sheds light
on the activists who are fighting corporate maneuvers to convert the
life-sustaining resource of water into more gold for the elites and uses
her knowledge of science and society to outline the emergence of
corporate culture and the historical erosion of communal water rights.
Using the international water trade and industrial activities such as
damming, mining, and aquafarming as her lens, Shiva exposes the
destruction of the earth and the disenfranchisement of the world's poor
as they are stripped of rights to a precious common good. Revealing how
many of the most important conflicts of our time, most often camouflaged
as ethnic wars or religious wars, are in fact conflicts over scarce but
vital natural resources, she calls for a movement to preserve water
access for all and offers a blueprint for global resistance based on
examples of successful campaigns.
Featuring a new introduction by the author, this edition of Water Wars
celebrates the spiritual and traditional role water has played in
communities throughout history and warns that water privatization
threatens cultures and livelihoods worldwide.
