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The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos

Karen Piper

Print publication date: 2014

Print ISBN-13: 9780816695423

Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: August 2015

DOI: 10.5749/minnesota/9780816695423.001.0001

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Mother Ganga Is Not for Sale

Mother Ganga Is Not for Sale

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(p.129) Four Mother Ganga Is Not for Sale
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The Price of Thirst
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Karen Piper

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University of Minnesota Press
DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816695423.003.0005

Long viewed as a spiritual entity, the Ganges River is now being diverted to a Suez water treatment plant in New Delhi. This chapter focuses on resistance to that diversion.

Keywords:   Water, Privatization, Environment, Globalization, climate change, food security, social unrest

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