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The Water Manifesto: Arguments for a World Water Contract (Global Issues)

The Water Manifesto: Arguments for a World Water Contract (Global Issues)

by PatrickCamiller (Translator), RicardoPetrella (Author)

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    Paperback 2001

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One and a half billion people across the world lack drinking water and another two lack clean water generally. In 20 years time these numbers will have doubled. Agricultural and industrial pollution is degrading the quality of fresh water supplies everywhere. And we lack a body of international law regulating the right to fresh water supplies. Should access to water be a universal human right? Should the provision of water be left in the hands of privatized corporations? Riccardo Petrella analyses the obstacles in the way of an adequate response to these issues and sets out a cogent critique of a market-oriented system that sees water as a commodity rather than a precious community resource and fundamental human right. This book calls for a world water contract enshrining fresh water as an essential good to which all people have a right. It should be controlled by communities in the public interest, and with international rules for its equitable management and distribution. He also calls on citizens, NGOs and parliamentarians all over the world to mobilize around these demands, as well as for an immediate programme of fresh water provision for the rural and urban poor.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 160
 Publisher: Zed Books Ltd
Published: 01 May 2001
ISBN 10: 1856499065
ISBN 13: 9781856499064
Book Overview: Riccardo Peterella is known for his bestseller, The Limits to Competition , first published in 1995 while he was President of the Group of Lisbon.

Media Reviews
'It is time to oppose privatizing water and turning it into a commodity. To take action, as The Water Manifesto proposes, so that access to water is recognized as a human right, will supplement hope with strength' - Danielle Mitterand, President, Fondation France Liberte 'Democracy and liberty can only be the result of popular involvement and struggle. It is in this spirit that The Water Manifesto calls for citizens to mobilize in order to demand a worldwide water contract' - Mario Soares, former President, Republic of Portugal
Author Bio
Riccardo Petrella is perhaps best known in the English-speaking world for his path-breaking book, The Limits to Competition. This book, widely seen as the 1990s counterpart to the Club of Rome's Limits to Growth report of the 1970s, was first published in 1995 while Riccardo Petrella was President of the Group of Lisbon. It soon became an intellectual bestseller in the United States and has been now translated and published in ten languages. Born in 1941, a social scientist by background, Riccardo Petrella became a leading member of Jacques Delors' team at the European Union when it was trying to deepen the social content of the EU as a political project to which the ordinary man -- and woman -- in the street could relate. Committed to a vision in which humanbeings rather than the market become the centrepiece for a new global social contract which can provide renewed hope and optimism for the future. Riccardo Petrella's new book is an important development of certain ideas first outlined in The Limits to Competition. He is currently teaching at the Catholic University of Louvain.