Barlow and Clarke - Blue Gold

Blue Gold; The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water - 2002

Barlow/ Clarke

A book about the upcoming shortages of freshwater, and about the battle that will consist when water supplies will no longer face our needs.

Chapter 1: The crisis
1 Red Alert
2 Endangered Planet
3 Dying of Thirst

Chapter 2: The Politics
4 Everything for sale
5 Global Water Lords
6 Emergent Water Cartel
7 Global Nexus

Chapter 3: The Way Forward
8 Fightback
9 The Standpoint
10 The Way Forward

Review:

A clear-cut description of the reasons why we will be battling over water in the next centuries. Big companies, such as coca cola, buy up freshwater rights very rapidly and the water consumption still doubles every twenty years. Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, active opponents of these trends, show how water shortages consist and how water only flows uphill to wealthy people who can afford it. The book captures in striking detail the forces behind the increasing depletion of the world's freshwater and its human and ecological impacts.

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