Water wars

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First Sentence

"In 1995, Ismail Serageldin, vice president of the World Bank, made a much-quoted prediction about the future of war: "If the wars of this century were fought over oil, the wars of the next century will be fought over water.""

Description

Using the global water trade as a lens, [the author] exposes the destruction of the earth and the disenfranchisement of the world's poor as they lose their right to a life-sustaining common good.