Privatizing Water: Governance Failure and the World’s Urban Water Crisis. By Karen Bakker

By Eric P. Perramond. 2012

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Water and Human Development (2014, background): “Furthermore, water is the new liquid gold of the twenty first century with increasing controversies concerning its commodification and privatisation (see Barlow & Clarke, 2002; Goldman, 2007; Bakker, 2010; Hall et al., 2005; McDonald and Ruiters, 2005).”
Neoliberal Versus Postneoliberal Water: Geographies of Privatization and Resistance (2013, background): “Critics argued that the private sector had not systematically succeeded in outperforming the public sector with respect to new connections and new finance—some of the advantages frequently identified by proponents of water supply privatization (Davis 2005; Prasad 2006; Castro 2008; Bakker 2010).”
The danger of naturalizing water policy concepts: Water productivity and efficiency discourses from field irrigation to virtual water trade (2012, background): “Thirdly, in practice transnational companies do not pay compensation costs to the communitieswhosewater they take away or pollute (Bakker, 2010; Van der Ploeg, 2010; Progressio et al., 2010).”