Privatizing water [electronic resource] : governance failure and the world's urban water crisis / Karen Bakker.
c2010Description: xvi, 303 p. : ill., mapsISBN:- 9780801447235 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0801447232 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780801474644 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0801474647 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780801463617 (e-book)
- 363.6/1 22
- HD4456 .B35 2010eb

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Governance failure : reframing the urban water supply "crisis" -- Material emblems of citizenship : creating "public" water -- Watering the thirsty poor : the water privatization debate -- Citizens without a city : the techno-politics of urban water governance -- Protesting privatization : transnational struggles over the human right to water -- Commons versus commodities : the ambiguous merits of community water-supply management -- Politics and biopolitics : debating ecological governance.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.