“The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth,” by Kenneth E. Boulding, Sixth Resources for the Future Forum on Environmental Quality in a Growing Economy, Washington, DC, March 8, 1966, 7 sp.

http://www.panarchy.org/boulding/spaceship.1966.html

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An excerpt from Water Wars by Vandana Shiva, South End Press, 2002, 25 p.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Vandana_Shiva/Water_Wars_VShiva.html

Those who pollute wells and rivers or who privatize water deny poor people access to an essential need. Because water falls on earth in a dispersed manner, because every living being needs water, decentralized management and democratic ownership are the only efficient, sustainable, and equitable systems for the sustenance of all.

“Introduction” from Blue Gold: The global water crisis and the commodification of the world’s water supply, by Maude Barlow, International Forum on Globalization (IFG), Spring 2001, 17 p.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Water/Introduction_BG.html

The push to commodify water comes at a time when the social, political, and economic impacts of water scarcity are rapidly becoming a destabilizing force, with water-related conflicts springing up around the globe.