Blue Gold: The Battle Against Corporate Theft of the World's Water

By M. Barlow, T. Clarke. 2002

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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): “Others instead see a frightening picture, in which water, a basic need for everyone [35], becomes a tradable commodity that can be obtained only by those who can afford to pay [33].”
Learning more effectively from experience (2005, background): “Beliefs, worldviews, and dogma continually reinforce actions that are detrimental to the environment (e.g., Barlow and Clarke 2002, Fazey t al., submitted), and people are becoming increasingly dissociated from nature (Glendinning 1995, Metzner 1995).”
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).”
Access and allocation in earth system governance: water and climate change compared (2010, background): “water increased (Barlow and Clarke 2002; Petrella 2001) and marginalized groups have Access and allocation in earth system governance 383”