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The Price of Thirst

Nature & Science

The Price of Thirst

Nature & Science

The Price of Thirst

Karen Piper

Besides exacerbating social and environmental problems, privatizing water management ensures that money is taken from locals and redistributed to for-profit businesses and banks. You need to rethink what you eat. Most likely, what you eat is a factor in the global water shortage. You can help remedy this by changing your lifestyle a little bit. Fruit and nuts, for instance, are water-efficient crops, so consider reducing your meat consumption.

environment

politics

climate-change

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In her 2014 book The Price of Thirst, Karen Piper exposes how private water businesses, in their pursuit of profit, have failed to provide everyone with access to clean water and have contributed to environmental degradation and political unrest.

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Karen Piper is an American author, memoirist, and academic known for her literary works and academic contributions in the field of creative writing and English literature.

“Books were faithful and reliable. You could pack them up and put them in a box, run your hands over the spines, flip through their pages full of memories. They always came with you, wherever you went.”

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Our own creations are causing us to run out of water, such as urbanization, agriculture, and climate change.

Businesses have profited from our water crisis. Profit maximization is always the primary goal.

The World Bank and IMF support water privatization at the expense of public access to clean water.

A private company is always the winner in water privatization schemes.

There is a human cost to the water crisis as well. Lack of access and unequal distribution cause social unrest.

It can be extremely harmful to the environment to focus on profits from water privatization.

It is difficult to reverse privatization once it becomes the rule. The advantage always seems to be with the companies.

The reasons for water scarcity can be tackled by the spread of urbanization and halting climate change.

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