THE LAST DROP: THE POLITICS OF WATER
Book ID/图书代码： 10953015B85818
English Summary/英文概要： Indispensable for human existence yet increasingly owned and controlled by private capital; the last decade has witnessed an intensifying battle for water. The exploding profits of the multinational companies which dominate the water industry are testimony to how high the stakes are - by 2012 it had become a worth a trillion dollars. The Last Drop traces a path through the complex arguments that surround the question of water, setting out to make the technical and scientific arguments more accessible and the political questions more urgent.
Against the market fundamentalists, Mike Gonzalez and Marianella Yanes argue that it is both possible and necessary that considerations of equity and social justice prevail in the debates around water. They call for our water supply to be saved from subordination to the whims of the multinationals and placed under direct democratic public control. This book will be a vital resource for water activists and a wake-up call to everyone who takes for granted what comes out of their kitchen tap.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 水是人类生存不可或缺的元素，但水逐渐被民营资本拥有和控制。过去的十年里，对水的争夺战愈演愈烈。主导净水行业的跨国公司拥有巨大的利润，2012年这个数字高达一万亿美元。本书通过围绕水问题的复杂争论，试图从技术和科学方面提出更有说服力的论据，让围绕水而产生的政治问题更为迫切。
与市场原教主义者不同，Mike Gonzalez和Marianella Yanes认为在为水问题争辩时，我们有可能而且有必要考虑到公平性和社会正义。他们呼吁让供水脱离跨国公司的管辖，回归直接的民主的公共控制。本书将是水资源保护积极分子的重要资料来源，也为所有从没有想过水资源重要性的公众敲响警钟。(LYR)
Awards/获奖情况：水是属于我们大家的资源。在这本洞察力深刻但又十分易懂的书中，Mike Gonzalez将国际资本如何重新将水定义成一件商品作了详细的讲解，展现了水资源私有化问题带来的苦涩后果。（爱尔兰国会议员）
Gonzalez和Yanes对当前世界水资源短缺给出了确切的分析。本书详细介绍了“现代”世界如何创造了史无前例的水资源短缺，并将国内真正的水资源消费者的消费问题独立开来。“管理危机”改变了水，它不再是全人类的权利，而变成了有利可图的商品。这本书你必须读！（Marcela Olivera是Red VIDA的协调人，这是一个美国国内的追求用水正义的组织）
Seminal (LSE Review of Books)
Water is a resource that belongs to all of us, and in this perceptive yet accessible book Mike Gonzalez takes issue with the way global capitalism has redefined water as a commodity, and depicts the bitter harvest that has resulted from water privatisation. (Richard Boyd Barrett T.D. (Member of Irish Parliament))
Gonzalez and Yanes have produced a definitive analysis of the current world water challenge. This book details how the ’modern’ world has created a shortage unprecedented in human history while separating the popular theme of domestic consumption from the true water consumers: the corporations. To understand the “crisis of governance” that has changed water as a human right to a profitable commodity for financial interests, you must read The Last Drop. (Marcela Olivera is the coordinator of the Red VIDA, an Inter-American water justice network.)
About the Author/作者介绍： Mike Gonzalez是格拉斯哥大学拉美研究名誉教授。他共同编辑了《Arms and the People》（Pluto出版社，2012年），并著有《Hugo Chavez: Socialist for the Twenty-first Century》（Pluto出版社，2014年）。
Marianella Yanes是委内瑞拉记者，并为电视台和电影创作脚本。2009年1月前，她在委内瑞拉国家石油公司（PDVSA）以记者身份拍摄纪录片。
Mike Gonzalez is Emeritus Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Glasgow. He is the co-editor of Arms and the People (Pluto, 2012) and author of Hugo Chavez: Socialist for the Twenty-first Century (Pluto, 2014)
Marianella Yanes is a Venezuelan journalist and writer for television and film. Until January 2009 she worked for the Venezuelan State Oil Corporation (PDVSA) as a journalist and documentary maker.
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