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Most people assume that the water they use is and will remain a constant in their lives. They do not realize that, worldwide, water is in play in the "market" and part of a high-stakes global poker game. Clean, fresh water is finite and represents only one percent of all the water on earth. Population pressure, waste, global warming, pollution and other factors are driving water scarcity, making it an increasingly profitable market “product.”
The documentary, Thirst showed how communities around the world are resisting privatization. Thirst the book picks up where the documentary left off, showing how global corporations are vying for control of our most precious resource and how citizens are fighting this battle. Thirst exposes the primary ways corporations and “first world” governments are stealing water by taking over municipal control of the supply in communities around the country and by buying up rights to groundwater, river water and lake water, controlling access to the water and fixing prices of the water
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