The Piper's Fee
Author : Samuel Hopkins Adams
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Page : 314 pages
File Size : 18,59 MB
Release : 1926
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Author : Samuel Hopkins Adams
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Page : 314 pages
File Size : 18,59 MB
Release : 1926
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Page : 1534 pages
File Size : 30,59 MB
Release : 1870
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
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Author : Karen Piper
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 25,99 MB
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1452943729
“There's Money in Thirst,” reads a headline in the New York Times. The CEO of Nestlé, purveyor of bottled water, heartily agrees. It is important to give water a market value, he says in a promotional video, so “we're all aware that it has a price.” But for those who have no access to clean water, a fifth of the world's population, the price is thirst. This is the frightening landscape that Karen Piper conducts us through in The Price of Thirst—one where thirst is political, drought is a business opportunity, and more and more of our most necessary natural resource is controlled by multinational corporations. In visits to the hot spots of water scarcity and the hotshots in water finance, Piper shows us what happens when global businesses with mafia-like powers buy up the water supply and turn off the taps of people who cannot pay: border disputes between Iraq and Turkey, a “revolution of the thirsty” in Egypt, street fights in Greece, an apartheid of water rights in South Africa. The Price of Thirst takes us to Chile, the first nation to privatize 100 percent of its water supplies, creating a crushing monopoly instead of a thriving free market in water; to New Delhi, where the sacred waters of the Ganges are being diverted to a private water treatment plant, fomenting unrest; and to Iraq, where the U.S.-mandated privatization of water resources destroyed by our military is further destabilizing the volatile region. And in our own backyard, where these same corporations are quietly buying up water supplies, Piper reveals how “water banking” is drying up California farms in favor of urban sprawl and private towns. The product of seven years of investigation across six continents and a dozen countries, and scores of interviews with CEOs, activists, environmentalists, and climate change specialists, The Price of Thirst paints a harrowing picture of a world out of balance, with the distance between the haves and have-nots of water inexorably widening and the coming crisis moving ever closer.
Author : Manx Society
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Page : 462 pages
File Size : 44,21 MB
Release : 1866
Category : English language
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Author : Thomas Dyche
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Page : 794 pages
File Size : 35,73 MB
Release : 1794
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Page : 890 pages
File Size : 16,7 MB
Release : 1881
Category : United States
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Author : P. D. Stemp
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 43,69 MB
Release : 2017-08-04
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1326955047
Piper Aircraft Manufacturers from their early beginnings to quite recently. The book gives details on the types produced, with a variety of pictures and plans. Performance, dimensions, weights, construction, equipment, first flights, production numbers and other relevant details. There are around: - 135 pages - 147 pictures - 30 plans.
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Page : 886 pages
File Size : 32,88 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Consumer protection
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Author : John Kelly
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Page : 484 pages
File Size : 24,74 MB
Release : 1866
Category : English language
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Page : 928 pages
File Size : 10,74 MB
Release : 1871
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
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