Privatizing water : governance failure and the world's urban water crisis - Bakker, Karen J. (Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2010)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Municipal water supply -- Political aspects; Water utilities -- Deregulation; Privatization; Right to water