Author: Sjolander Holland, Ann-Christin.
Title: The Water Business: Corporations Versus People [Global Issues in a Changing World].
Description: London Zed Books, 2005. Paperback trade, very good condition, minor edgewear. 282 pp. Ann-Christin Sjolander Holland asks the ultimate question: should decisions about the provision of and access to water be taken by citizens in democratic societies, or by commercial corporations? The author travelled to Latin America, Africa and Europe to interview the poor, the experts, the corporate executives, and to bring back a story much more complicated than simply public versus private provision, or innovative mixes of both. Note: Privatization of water supplies began in England in 1989 under Margaret Thatcher, and in the ten years that followed, nearly 10 billion went in profits to the new water companies. Today, two giant corporations, Veolia and Suez, control 80% of the international private water market and have some 300 million customers. ISBN: 1842775650

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