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Water Wars | Praise
"Shiva
contributes to the heated debate on the global water crisis.… Shiva argues
forcefully that the main causes of water scarcity are not population growth
and natural disasters, but greed and wasteful consumption."
—Lori Pottinger, World Rivers Review
"Colorful
and enlightening.… An excellent starting point for anyone who wants to
understand the forces driving water scarcity today and threatening its future
supply."
—Kerryn Higgs, Women's Review of Books
"A
chilling, in-depth examination of the rapidly emerging global crisis."
—Kristie Reilly, In These Times
"When
private corporations own and manage the supply of the scarcity of a natural
and essential resource, as Vandana Shiva writes in her thoughtful new book Water
Wars, the ramifications extend beyond obvious public health and agricultural
crises, to cultural disintegration."
—Lisa Sorg, San Antonio Current
"Water
is being targeted for privatization by multinational corporations. But citizens
around the world are fighting back, as both these books, by savvy activists
and thinkers, detail."
—Yes! Magazine
"Rather
than celebrate the Reclamation Act and ignore a century of environmental degradation,
those gathered at the Hoover Dam this week would have been better off to read
Vandana Shiva's Water Wars."
—Shepherd Bliss, TomPaine.com
"As
world-renowned environmental thinker and activist Vandana Shiva makes frighteningly
clear in her latest book Water Wars, at issue in this flurry of corporate
takeovers is not only the control of water service and water treatment infrastructures."
—Kim Kipling, New River Free Press
"A
quick read and a good source of information."
—Kim Carlyle, BeFriending Creation
"A
masterpiece on what is probably the most important environmental and social
issue we face today.… If there is a series of books that all Green Socialists
should read they are those of Vandana Shiva."
—Pette Brown, UK Greens newsletter
“Water
Wars is penned in an activist voice, containing both a call to arms for
the global justice movement and forceful arguments against capital's theoretical
framework for privatization.… An inspiring question to the question: How
can one resist?"
—Lex Bhagat, The New Formulation
"The
world is on the brink of a major freshwater crisis. In Water Wars, Vandana Shiva,
one of the most powerful activist forces in the world today, outlines the global
nature of the crisis as well as the corporate plan to cartelize the world's
water supply for profit. Thankfully for us, Shiva also offers a blueprint for
resistance and an alternative vision for a water-secure and water-equitable
future.”
— Maude Barlow, Blue Planet Project, and co-author
of Blue Gold, The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water
Praise for Vandana Shiva
"Shiva…has devoted
her life to fighting for the rights of the ordinary people of India…her
fierce intellect and her disarmingly friendly, accessible manner have made her
a valuable advocate for people all over the developing world."
—Ms. Magazine
"A leading thinker
who has eloquently blended her views on the environment, agriculture, spirituality,
and women's rights into a powerful philosophy."
—Utne Reader
"Vandana Shiva is a
burst of creative energy and intellectual power."
—The Progressive
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