The Internet: A Historical Encyclopedia

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Throughout history water has confronted humanity with some of its greatest challenges. Water is a source of life and a natural resource that sustains our environments and supports livelihoods - but it is also a source of risk and vulnerability. In the early 21st Century, prospects for human development are threatened by a deepening global water crisis. Debunking the myth that the crisis is the result of scarcity, this report argues poverty, power and inequality are at the heart of the problem.

*Investigates the underlying causes and consequences of a crisis that leaves 1.2 billion people without access to safe water and 2.6 billion without access to sanitation

*Examines the social and economic forces that are driving water shortages and marginalizing the poor in agriculture and examines the scope for international cooperation to resolve cross-border tensions in water management

*Includes special contributions from Gordon Brown and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, President Lula, President Carter, and the UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan.

Troubled Water: Saints, Sinners, Truth And Lies About The Global Water Crisis

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Truths, lies, and myths surrounding a range of water issues
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Troubled Water: Saints, Sinners, Truth And Lies About The Global Water Crisis
Anita Roddick , Brooke Shelby Biggs , Robert F., Jr. Kennedy , Vandana Shiva , Maude Barlow , and Tony Clarke
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ASIN: 095439593X

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Around the world, one billion people lack access to clean water. Droughts, floods, and waterborne diseases kill tens, perhaps hundreds, of millions of people (mostly children) every year. And huge multinational corporations see a profit opportunity unparalleled even by oil or gold. From Bolivia to Britain, water supplies are being privatized and sold for profit, cutting millions off from the single most crucial human need. Meanwhile, consumers in industrialized countries such as Italy, Britain, Australia, and the United States eagerly drink millions of liters of bottled water every day--some of which is less pure than the stuff flowing from their taps at home--at a cost of about one thousand times what tap water costs. In America, beef-flavored bottled water for dogs is sold; in Nigeria, you can buy a bottle of water guaranteed to make men more virile. Why are the politics of water so skewed, and whatÂ's being done about it? This book explores the problems and the solutions, and provides resources for ordinary readers to get involved.

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Well-Presented Material.......2006-02-21

I found this book to be a very compelling source of information about our Global water crisis. It presented information in formats that are very clear and to the point. It illustrates quite well the tug-of-war going on today between corporations that sell bottled water and/or soft drinks and the people of countries who desperately need that water at low prices. This book defines water's critical role in the network of the earth's resources and how clean water should be the right of all human beings, not a commodity purchased by corporations and sold at huge profits. A must read!

Truths, lies, and myths surrounding a range of water issues.......2005-02-10

Anita Roddick is both an entrepreneur and an activist and in Troubled Water: Saints, Sinners, Truth And Lies About The Global Water Crisis, informatively surveys the issues involved in worldwide potable water availability, from the politics of water distribution and water quality to global warming and bottled water myths. Essays from Greenpeace, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and others, outline truths, lies, and myths surrounding a range of world water issues.

For water ignorants.......2004-10-15

This book could well be termed Water 101, but if you have been interested in water for more than a day, it is likely you already know more than what is inside. Besides, the information is poorly displayed in my opinion.

Most amazing book series ever by a business person.......2004-10-01

Troubled Water is part of an amazing library of books Anita Roddick, global entrepreneur and founder of Body Shop, has spent much of the last 3 years authoring and is publishing simultaneously.

Troubled Water is likely to have extraordinary consequences for global corporations in the water and soft drinks industries. For years, this sector has been asked by poor countries to collaborate responsibly and not to try to take over water in countries where cumulatively a billion people already have no fresh water access. As the author of World Class Brands 15 years ago, and a marketer ashamed to agree with most of Naomi Klein's charges of how much badwill global marketing has needlessly compounded over the last decade and a half, it will need a heroic and deeply human response from the likes of Coca-Cola if it is to remain in top 10 global branding lists 5 years out.

It is fitting that within days of the publication of Troubled Water, the president of the World Bank has declared a war on global poverty. Over in Britain, from where I submit this review, you can be assured that Water will be the main activist theme aligning 20000 concerned people converging for the European Social Forum (October 2004), and celebrating the Brazilian led launch of the International Free Water Academy. It is time the people of the world took back the branding of the humanity of water, and 2005 is a year jammed full of large scale change networking events, each of which will pay special tribute to water as a symbol of human freedom. Troubled Water is a book of our times, the start of an activepeace movement as well as with your and my god's blessings a whirlwind contributor to James Wolfesohn's war on poverty. It would be fitting to pay tribute to his and Anita's common sense of humanity and water with the way the World Bank declares our future's interdependence at every locality of the globe:

"The big issue of our time is global security. At present, we view it mostly through the lens of Baghdad or Beslan. While we certainly have to deal with these and other immediate concerns, by far, the greatest potential source of instability on our planet today is poverty, and the hopelessness and despair that it brings to so many in our world. Sixty years ago, the world recognized the need to bring hope to the millions of people left in shattered nations after World War II, and the World Bank was created to help them rebuild their lives. Its mission today remains as critical as it was then, if not more so. It is in all our best interests to help countries that struggle with crushing poverty to take basic steps, such as getting boys and girls into school; preventing diseases like H.I.V./AIDS, malaria and diarrhea; protecting our forests and oceans; and removing obstacles to trade so that poor farmers can get their products to market. Helping poor countries develop in this way is not merely the right thing to do ( though, of course, it is): investing in development is the safe thing to do. My generation did not grow up thinking this way. We thought there were two worlds - the haves and the have-nots - and that they were, for the most part, quite separate. That was wrong then. It is even more wrong now. The wall that many of us imagined as separating the rich countries from the poor countries came down on Sept. 11, 2001. We are linked now in so many ways: by economics and trade, migration, environment, disease, drugs and conflict. In our world of six billion people, one billion have 80 percent of the world's GDP, while the other five billion have the remaining 20 percent. Nearly half this world lives on less than $2 per day. One billion people have no access to clean water; over 100 million children never get the chance to go to school...

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Water: The International Crisis
Robin Clarke
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ASIN: 026253116X

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Policymakers and development planners have been curiously struck with "water blindness" in the face of a quadrupling of water use throughout the world during the last five decades. Without resorting to doom-and-gloom scenarios, Robin Clarke offers the first comprehensive approach to this most valuable and fragile of Earth's life supporting substances.

Clarke describes the economics and the politics that have led to today's freshwater shortage and observes that inappropriate water resources development is a major factor in the degradation of land and water. His insightful analyses include new ideas as well as simple and well-tried solutions that can be extended to ensure future water security.

Robin Clarke is the author of numerous environmental books, and consultant to the publishing program of the Global Environment Monitoring Systems of the United Nations Environment Program(GEMS UNEP).

Che Guevara and the Fight for Socialism Today: Cuba Confronts the World Crisis of the '90s

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Che Guevara and the Fight for Socialism Today: Cuba Confronts the World Crisis of the '90s
Mary-Alice Waters
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Socialism can be built only by free men and women working together to lay the foundations for a new society and transforming themselves in the process. That commitment was championed in action by Ernesto Che Guevara in the early years of the Cuban revolution. It remains a living legacy for Cuban working people today.

Also available in: French; Spanish; Icelandic

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Socialism lives, Stalinism dead, the fight in Cuba.......2006-07-06

This pamphlet is very important. It explains the political reason why the Cuba revolution has continued to grow and survive, while the stalinist bureaucratic run governments of Eastern Europe and the USSR have collapsed, and why the remaining Stalinist governments in China, North Korea, and Vietnam are in Crisis.

Whatever assistance the Cubans received from the Stalinized workers states, there was always a revolutionary opposition to the Stalinist politics and the approaches to "building socialism" that came with that aid. After the attempt to use more of these methods in the 1970s, the ideas of Che Guevera about political and economic struggle were revived in Cuba, and the Cuban government launched a program of struggle against Stalinism that Fidel Castro denounced as "worse than capitalism."

This pamphlets explains the political approach of Che which is the lifeblood of the Cuban revolution.

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Might as well be written by Castro himself.......2006-04-18

This book is propaganda pure and simple. I had to read this for a poli sci class last semester and it is horrible. It begins with the increaing interest in Marxism and socialism. And then goes on to profile che guvara and Castro and the implications for socialism after the 5 billion dollar subsidies dried up after the early 1990's.

Don't waste your time buying or reading this extremely short and biased work. Their is no information and only tiny philosophical reasons why communism didn't fail after the U.S.S.R fall. Very short and biased and contains nothing of substance. Also very expensive for what amounts to propaganda.

Excellent.......1997-11-15

Mary-Alice does a wonderful job of describing Che's political ideas, and tying them in with today's political issues in the United States, Cuba, and all around the world. This pamphlet is a must for anyone interested in Che, Cuba, or worldwide trends in the capitalist system as a whole.

U.S. Hands Off the Mideast!: Cuba Speaks Out at the United Nations

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Cuba speaks the truth
Cuba Exposes U.S. Aims
We need this book now to oppose the War Against IRAQ

U.S. Hands Off the Mideast!: Cuba Speaks Out at the United Nations
Fidel Castro , Ricardo Alarcon , and Mary-Alice Waters
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Cuba speaks the truth.......2003-03-15

What a timely book!! Too bad that Cuba is no longer on the UN Security Council--its revolutionaries are badly needed to tell the truth, as they did thirteen years ago when the US was poised to attack Iraq in the Gulf War. As the documents in this book show, they were the only ones who had the guts to take on the US in the United Nations--not from a fake antiwar stance as the governments of France and Germany do today--but from the standpoint of international working-class solidarity. This books shows why the US is once again beating the war drums and it also shows why the US government can't stand Cuba. Viva Cuba! Bring the troops home NOW!

Cuba Exposes U.S. Aims.......2003-02-14

An excellent background to the current U.S. plans to attack and occupy Iraq. Drawn from the debate in the United Nations Security Council in 1990, this book highlights the revolutionary role of Cuba, which was then a member of the Security Council.

Cuban Representative Ricardo Alarcón asked, "Is it really the need to promote respect for the independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity of states that motivates the United States? Or is it the ambition of the United States to intervene and dominate the Middle East?"

This book, which includes speeches by Fidel Castro as well as Alarcón, will help clarify the real aims of the imperialists' first war against Iraq, as well as the second one.

We need this book now to oppose the War Against IRAQ.......2003-02-14

With US Imperialism preparing a war in the Middle East that will dwarf the Gulf War discussed here, this book is needed just as much as it was needed during the Gulf War. The leaders of the Cuban revolution in the UN and beyond pointed out then, and point out today that the real objectives of imperialism in this war are nothing less than a colonial conquest of the one of the richest oil countries on Earth. Listen to these voices, not the lies of Emron-paid-for-my-campaign Bush when you consider what the coming war is all about. Listen to these voices and understand that no matter how bad the regime in Iraq is, the struggle of the Iraqi people is part of the struggle of all the peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America to throw off the economic and political domination of the imperialist countries of Europe, North America, and Japan. Read these words and join the struggle against imperialist war and for the self-determination of the oppressed of the Earth!

China's Water Crisis.(Book Review) : An article from: Pacific Affairs

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China's Water Crisis.(Book Review) : An article from: Pacific Affairs
Jih-Un Kim
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The growing water crisis: given the growing scarcity of water, it's time to change water policies worldwide.(Environment; International Food Policy Research ... An article from: The Futurist

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The growing water crisis: given the growing scarcity of water, it's time to change water policies worldwide.(Environment; International Food Policy Research ... An article from: The Futurist
Clifton Coles
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Title: The growing water crisis: given the growing scarcity of water, it's time to change water policies worldwide.(Environment; International Food Policy Research Institute report, www.ifpri.org)
Author: Clifton Coles
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Keeping our heads above water: the Water Crisis, Rudimentary Technologies, and rocket science.(Articles)(while Canada is a water-rich country, it is important ... An article from: Canadian Chemical News

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Keeping our heads above water: the Water Crisis, Rudimentary Technologies, and rocket science.(Articles)(while Canada is a water-rich country, it is important ... An article from: Canadian Chemical News
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Title: Keeping our heads above water: the Water Crisis, Rudimentary Technologies, and rocket science.(Articles)(while Canada is a water-rich country, it is important to be wary of the threats to the resource)
Author: Manuel Alvarez Cuenca
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MEXICO FACING WATER CRISIS.: An article from: SourceMex Economic News & Analysis on Mexico

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Plunging into crisis: freshwater resources come under increasing pressure. (Picture this).(Competing uses): An article from: Finance & Development

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Title: Plunging into crisis: freshwater resources come under increasing pressure. (Picture this).(Competing uses)
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Date: June 1, 2003
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