Privatizing Water: Governance Failure and the World's Urban Water Crisis

by Karen Bakker

Book Overview

Water supply privatization was emblematic of the neoliberal turn in development policy in the 1990s. Proponents argued that the private sector could provide better services at lower costs than governments; opponents questioned the risks involved in delegating control over a life-sustaining resource to for-profit companies. Private-sector activity was most concentrated--and contested--in large cities in developing countries, where the widespread...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801474647
• ISBN13: 9780801474644
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher