governance failure and the world's urban water crisis Bakker, Karen J. creator text xxu New Delhi Orient Blackswan 2011 monographic eng

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xvi, 303p. : ill., maps 24cm (Hb) 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. by Karen Bakker Includes bibliographical references and index. Municipal water supply Political aspects Water utilities Deregulation Privatization Right to water 363.61 9788125043218 ENG-103859 DBAD/PUB DPL 111003 20111003153249.0 Eng