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Privatizing Water\nby Karen Bakker\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Karen Bakker\nTitle: Privatizing Water\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Energy and natural resources law\nPublisher: MB - Cornell University Press\nPublication year: 2010\nISBN-13: 9780801474644\nISBN-10: 0801474647\nRRP: \u00A325.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nWater supply privatization was emblematic of the neoliberal turn in development policy in the 1990s. Proponents argued that the private sector could provide better services at lower costs than governments; opponents questioned the risks involved in delegating control over a life-sustaining resource to for-profit companies. Private-sector activity was most concentratedand contestedin large cities in developing countries, where the widespread lac.