Human Rights and Privatization of Water in the European Union and Beyond

摘要: Poisoned Spring: The EU and Water Privatisation. By Kartika Liotard, Steven P. McGiffen London: Pluto Press, 2009. 176 pp., $28.95 paperback (ISBN-13: 978-0-74532-788-4). Viewed as an alternative to traditional state control which was seen overly centralized, wasteful, inflexible, many developing countries privatized their water management beginning in the 1990s attract foreign investment adhere new multilateral development bank policies. Growing dissatisfaction with neo-liberal reforms sector recent years, especially privatization, has fueled explosion of popular protests that advance claim a human right (Bakker 2007, 2010; Conca 2008; Veiga da Cunha 2009; Khadka 2010). In 2010, captured international stage when both UN Human Rights Council General Assembly affirmed sanitation basic right. Increasingly, rights equity issues are permeating discussions around role private provision water. A powerful indictment policy, Privatisation, explores growth privatization one region past three decades negative consequences it produces within European Union world. It is not review policy alone but rather broader critique Commission organizations such International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization (WTO), Bank they play promoting across globe. demonstrating how corporations have come …