Bakker, Karen J., <br/><br/>
Privatizing water :  governance failure and the world's urban water crisis / 
Karen Bakker. 
 - xvi, 303 pages :  illustrations, maps ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780801447235 (cloth : alk. paper)  RM345.73 0801447232 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780801474644 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0801474647 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Municipal water supply--Political aspects.<br/>Water utilities--Deregulation.<br/>Privatization.<br/>Right to water.