List of Figures, Tables and Boxes
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. A Floating Planet
2. How Water was Privatised
3. Disasters, Natural and Otherwise
4. A Short Trip through Amazonia
5. Bitter Harvests
6. Virtual Water
7. Water and Global Warming
8. Ya Basta! Enough Is Enough!
9. What Is to Be Done?
10. A New World Water Order
Notes
Index
Mike Gonzalez is Emeritus Professor of Latin American Studies at
the University of Glasgow. He is the author of The Ebb of the Pink
Tide (Pluto, 2018) The Last Drop: The Politics of Water (Pluto,
2015) and Hugo Chavez: Socialist for the Twenty-first Century
(Pluto, 2014). He is co-editor of Arms and the People (Pluto,
2012).
Marianella Yanes is a Venezuelan journalist and writer for
television and film. Until January 2009 she worked for the
Venezuelan State Oil Corporation (PDVSA) as a journalist and
documentary maker. She is the co-author of The Last Drop (Pluto,
2015).
'Seminal'
*LSE Review of Books*
'Water is a resource that belongs to all of us, and this perceptive
book takes issue with the way global capitalism has redefined water
as a commodity, and depicts the bitter harvest that has resulted
from water privatisation.'
*Richard Boyd Barrett T.D. (Member of Irish Parliament)*
'A definitive analysis of the current world water challenge. To
understand the “crisis of governance” that has changed water as a
human right to a profitable commodity for financial interests, you
must read The Last Drop.'
*Marcela Olivera is the coordinator of the Red VIDA, an
Inter-American water justice network.*
'In this sobering account of hydro-politics, Gonzalez and Yanes
remind us that human greed - not environmental inadequacy - lies at
the heart of the global water 'crisis'.'
*Dr Marcelle Dawson, Senior Lecturer in Sociology (University of
Otago, New Zealand) and Vice-President, Research Committee 47
(Social Classes and Social Movements), International Sociological
Association.*
'Books like this are rare. Eloquent, poetic, enraged, committed,
Marxist, environmentalist, written from the Global South, a book
full of fire.'
*Jonathan Neale, author of Stop Global Warming, Change the
World*
'A grim reminder and a wake-up call to liberate water from the
predominant notion that 'whoever controls water controls
society''
*Current Science*
'A positive, necessary, and timely introduction to the mammoth
global problems we will face for some time to come'
*Marx & Philosophy Review of Books*
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