Blue Gold : The Fight to Stop

In a shocking exposé, Blue Gold show why, as the vice-president of the World Bank has pronounced, The wars of the next century will be about water. Increasingly, transnational corporations are plotting to control the world's dwindling water supply. In England and France, where water has already been privatized, rates have soared and water shortages have been severe. The major bottled-water producers--Perrier, Evian, Naya, and now Coca Cola, and PepsiCo--are part of one of the fastest growing and least regulated industries, buying up fresh-water rights and drying up crucial supplies. The authors, two of the most active opponents of this trend, show how the corporate giants act in their own interest and how, contrary to received wisdom, water flows uphill to the wealthy, who can afford it.