Water for Sale.
Review of Karen Piper's THE PRICE OF THIRST.
Karen Piper’s Price of Thirst is an expose of the global cabal of five companies that controls some 73% of the world’s private water supplies. Private companies provide an increasing proportion of water: “By 2025, the number of people served by private water companies is predicted to reach 21%. In the United States, it will reach 39%.”
Building on what Piper characterizes as a colonial legacy, these companies are not producing clean water, but rather the conditions for a “dangerous global social unrest.”
Published in: First Things
By: Peter J. Leithart
Story Date: 2014-08-06T05:00:00+00:00
By: Peter J. Leithart
Story Date: 2014-08-06T05:00:00+00:00