Reflected in Water : A Crisis of Social Responsibility

Water is the primary requirement for human existence, belonging to all.

Yet from privatization in Britain to the displacement of millions by dam-building in the developing world, it has been appropriated as a commodity by the powerful.

This wide-ranging text examines the unequal distribution of water on a global scale.

Export crops are irrigated, subsistence crops wither, and yet all through history local communities have devised ways of ensuring fair shares of a vital and limited resource.

This book reasserts the claim for local community control of access to water.