Poisoned Spring : The EU and Water Privatisation.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Introduction: A Dangerous Synergy -- Climate Change -- Drought and Water Scarcity -- Extreme Weather Events -- Bad Weather, Bad Politics, Catastrophic Economics -- The Problem of Uncertainty -- Water, Health and Development -- The European Union and the Politics of Water -- A Call to Activism -- Structure of the Book -- 1. Drought and Deprivation -- Defining Drought -- How Much Water Do We Need? -- Population Growth and Drought -- Urbanisation and Drought -- Pollution as a Source of Water Shortage -- Climate Change and Drought -- The Environmental Effects of Drought -- The Socio-economic Consequences of Drought -- Planning for Drought -- Desertifi cation -- 2. Flood -- The Environmental Consequences of Flood -- The Socio-economic Consequences of Flood -- Flood Control - Good, Bad and Indifferent -- Physical Barriers - the Case of the Netherlands -- Dams -- Adaptation and the Non-structural Approach -- 3. Conflict and Cooperation -- Water Wars? -- Public Ownership -- Benefits of Cooperation -- Treaties and Agreements -- Beyond the Treaty -- 4. It Never Rains But it Pours: Climate Change, Water Shortage and Flood -- Water Quality -- Increased Costs -- North and South -- Supply-side Measures -- Reducing Waste -- Reducing Demand from Agriculture -- Tackling Climate Change -- 5. The European Union Within its Borders: Why Privatisation? The Ideology Behind the Theft of Public Property -- How Ideology Becomes Practice:The EU Legal Framework and the Drive to Privatisation -- EU Finance -- Some Experiences of Privatisation in the EU -- The Picture in the Rest of the EU -- Conclusion -- 6. The European Union Within its Borders, Part 2: The Water Framework Directive -- Drought and Water Scarcity -- Flood -- What Should be Done? -- 7. The European Union Beyond its Borders.

The Ideological Front -- Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) -- BizClim and the Private Sector Enabling Environment Facility -- Public Alternatives -- 8. A Better Water Policy is Possible -- Bibliography -- Books -- Official, Academic, Trade Union and NGO Reports -- Papers, Articles, Pamphlets and Presentations -- Notes -- Index.

Against the privatisation of water.

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