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Author Snitow, Alan.

Title Thirst : fighting the corporate theft of our water / Alan Snitow, Deborah Kaufman with Michael Fox
Edition First edition
Published San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, [2007]
©2007

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Description xv, 287 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Water: commodity or human right? -- Battles for water in the West -- 2. Hard ball vs. the high road : Stockton, California -- 3. Small-town surprise for a corporate water giant : Felton, California -- Scandals in the South : 4. The price of incompetence : Atlanta, Georgia -- 5. The hundred-year war : Lexington, Kentucky -- New England skirmishes 6. Keeping the companies at bay : Lee, Massachusetts -- 7. Cooking the numbers : Holyoke, Massachusetts -- Corporate Target : the Great Lakes -- 8. When Nestlé comes : Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin -- 9. To quench a thirst : Mecosta County, Michigan -- 10. Whose water, whose world is it?
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Water resources development -- United States.
Privatization -- Social aspects.
Water utilities -- United States -- Management.
Water-supply -- Political aspects -- United States.
Corporate power -- United States.
Author Kaufman, Deborah, 1955-
Fox, Michael, 1955-
LC no. 2007003997
ISBN 9780787984588 (hbk.)
0787984582 (hbk.)
Other Titles Fighting the corporate theft of our water