The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos

by Karen Piper

Book Overview

"There's Money in Thirst," reads a headline in the New York Times. The CEO of Nestl , purveyor of bottled water, heartily agrees. It is important to give water a market value, he says in a promotional video, so "we're all aware that it has a price." But for those who have no access to clean water, a fifth of the world's population, the price is thirst. This is the frightening landscape that Karen Piper conducts us through in The Price of Thirst--one...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816695423
• ISBN13: 9780816695423
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"