Journal article
Privatization, the World Water Crisis, and the Social Contract
PS, political science & politics, v 40(1), pp 49-54
Jan 2007
Abstract
To deny someone the right to water is tantamount to denying them the
right to life, and to set a price on water is to set a price on life. It
comes as no surprise then to find a good amount of anxiety and contention
over who gets to set the price of water and how much they charge. And over
the past two decades, throughout both the developed and developing world,
setting the price of water has fallen increasingly to private companies at
the same time as various demographic changes have increased water
scarcity. Thus we hear water described simultaneously in terms of both a
humanitarian crisis of global proportions—one standard though very
rough figure is that more than one billion people lack access to safe
drinking water (Davis 2005, 146; Black 2004, 28)—and as the “oil of the
21st century” (Wessel 2005).
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Details
- Title
- Privatization, the World Water Crisis, and the Social Contract
- Creators
- Richardson Dilworth - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- PS, political science & politics, v 40(1), pp 49-54
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press; New York, USA
- Number of pages
- 6
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Politics
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-33947495282
- Other Identifier
- 991014878429304721