Blue Gold

International tensions around water are rising in many of the world's most volatile regions. The policy recipe pursued by the West, and imposed on governments elsewhere, is to pass control over water to private interests. This book exposes the enormity of the problem, and the dangers of the proposed solution.

Acknowledgements * Introduction * Treaty Initiative * I The Crises: Red Alert * Endangered Planet * Dying of Thirst * II The Politics: Everything for Sale * Global Water Lords * Emergent Water Cartel * Global Nexus * III The Way Forward: Fightback * The Standpoint * The Way Forward * Notes * Index