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Thirst: Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water
By Alan Snitow & Deborah Kaufman, with Michael Fox

Release date: March 22, 2007

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We are at the tipping point in the new global water wars, and the United States is a major front. What happens now will determine the fate of our water and whether it will become the oil of the 21st Century. Picking up where the authors' PBS/P.O.V. documentary film left off, the book investigates eight recent dramatic battles over the corporate takeover of water in the United States and illuminates how and why citizens are fighting back both here and abroad.

The publication of Thirst the book will coincide with World Water Day, March 22. The international observance of World Water Day is an initiative that grew out of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro.

Endorsements for the book:

"As a congressman from the Great Lakes region, I appreciate this timely and important work on a critical public policy question: Is water a natural resource to be protected by the public realm, or is it just another commodity?"

— Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Ohio

"A smart, gripping narrative illustrating how big money is cornering the market for life’s basic ingredient. It will shock you — and it should!"

— Jeff Faux, Founder
Economic Policy Institute, Washington D.C.

"This passionate, information-packed book tells the story of ordinary Americans engaged in extraordinary struggles to save their water heritage for future generations. Every American should read it."

— Maude Barlow, Chair, Council of Canadians
Ottawa, Canada

"A terrific read. Startling and motivating. Thirst helps us see that the fight for the right to water is in fact a struggle for democracy itself. Read Thirst and dive into the 21st Century's core challenge: Do we save ourselves by the market's logic, or as citizens do we deepen democracy's logic?"

— Frances Moore Lappe, author of Democracy's Edge: Choosing to Save Our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life

Thirst is published by Jossey-Bass, an imprint of John Wiley & Sons.