Privatizing Water: Governance Failure and the World''s Urban Water Crisis
ISBN: 9780801463617
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Municipal water supply -- Political aspects; Water utilities -- Deregulation; Privatization; Right to water;

This book critically examines a range of issues, including the transnational struggle over the human right to water, the "commons" as a water supply management strategy, and the environmental dimensions of water privatization.


Karen Bakker is Professor, Canada Research Chair, and Founding Director of the Program on Water Governance at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of Eau Canada: The Future of Water Governance in Canada and An Uncooperative Commodity: Privatizing Water in England and Wales.

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