The Business of Water: Privatizing An Essential Resource

The Business of Water: Privatizing An Essential Resource

by Stephen Lendman / March 10th, 2010 (0)

In her 2002 book titled, Water Wars, noted author, social activist, and ecologist Vandana Shiva called privatizing water:

ecological terrorism;
a global water crisis;
along with overuse, waste and pollution, it can cause “the most pervasive, most severe, and most invisible dimension of the ecological devastation of the earth;”
the road to “an ecological crisis with commercial causes but no market solutions; (they) destroy the earth and aggravate inequality; the solution to an ecological crisis is ecological, and the solution for injustice is democracy;” and
water rights are natural and “usufructuary….water can be used but not owned;” it belongs to everyone as part of the …
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