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Deborah Kaufman's Thirst: Fighting The Corporate Theft Of Our Water

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Luke Batters Dr. Hink PS 211 Essay #1 Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman. Thirst: Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water. San Francisco: John Wiley and Sons, 2007. In Thirst: Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water, Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman shed light on the water crisis that is affecting billions of people across the world, an issue that has been far too common for far too long. “Water scarcity, already a crisis in much of the world, is a coming reality in the United States” (Snitow and Kaufman, pg. 2). Recently studies have shown that this crisis has spread to America at the hands of our government and big corporations, thus becoming a topic worth arguing. Water is not only a necessity for life, but a gift from god and a human …show more content…

For instance, this study reveals that foreign corporations are coming into the United States and taking power over our water, and its distribution. Further, this has shown to be draining money from the United States. “A huge sea of restless cash now moves globally, the results of tax cuts, high corporate profits, and the globalization… That cash has driven up not only stop prices of private water companies but also investor expectations of ever higher returns on dwindling supplies of the resources.” (Snitow & Kaufman, pg. 197) A good example of globalization, would be Nestles bottling and selling water from different places within the United States to regions both in and out of the United States. Perhaps most significantly, it alludes to the fact that although this may be seen as beneficial for the globalization of American Corporations and products, it has also shown to negatively impact the economy, the environment and completely disregard the health and needs of the people of the United States. Finally, it shows that Globalization of water is causing conflict across the world. “Globalization is flying its flag in the Santa Cruz mountains, and the people of Felton don’t like it much.” (Snitow & Kaufman, pg. 50) If this conflict persists, more problems may emerge, and the world may fall into an even deeper crisis than

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