Water wars-privatization, pollution and profit.

By A. Jägerskog. 2005

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Neoliberal Versus Postneoliberal Water: Geographies of Privatization and Resistance (2013, background): “…Agreement on Tariffs and Trade [GATT] and World Trade Organization [WTO]; Laurie and Marvin 1999; Brecher, Costello, and Smith 2000; Petrella 2001; Shiva 2002; Assies 2003; Barlow and Clarke 2003; Hukka and Katko 2003; Hall, Lobina, and de la Motte 2005; McDonald and Ruiters 2005; Swyngedouw…”
The Microfinance Illusion (2009, unknown): “Microfinance programmes have been deliberately used to ensure a less precipitous, and thus less politically damaging, decline in water demand after privatisation (for example, see Shiva, 2002).”
The Global Dimension of Water Governance: Why the River Basin Approach Is No Longer Sufficient and Why Cooperative Action at Global Level Is Needed (2010, background): “Shiva [36] further argues that in many cases the privatization of water leads to a situation in which companies profit from overexploitation of water resources, because scarce water resources can still be freely obtained and exploited without covering the cost of negative externalities.”
Microfinance and the Illusion of Development: From Hubris to Nemesis in Thirty Years (2012, background): “Shiva (2002) reports that microfinance programmes have been successfully used to ensure a less precipitous, and thus less politically damaging, decline in water demand after privatisation.”