Water for Sale : How Business and the Market Can Resolve the World's Water Crisis
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This book shows why the protesters are wrong and how more reforms could save the millions of lives and improve the lives of hundred of others.
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"Water has become a commodity whose quantity and quality are much too important to leave to the whims of public authorities. Water supply systems are in need of regulation through private ownership rights and markets for the transfer of these rights. Read this book and find out why." --Vernon L. Smith, Nobel Laureate in Economics
"When it comes to water policy books, relevance and sense are rare commodities. So it's a pleasant surprise that Fredrik Segerfeldt has provided both in this most useful addition to the literature. Water privatization has proved difficult nearly everywhere it's been tried, but, as this book neatly explains, the alternative has usually been worse. Water for Sale should be widely read, especially by engineers, hydrologists, and government officials who know little, and usually care even less, about markets." --Roger Bate, Africa Fighting Malaria
"Fredrik Segerfeldt's book Water for Sale is an excellent argument for private management of humankind's most valuable natural resource. Its thesis is both provocative and suggestive -- water is scarce in developing countries because of poor management, not because it is in short supply. Water policy affects the future of millions of people across the globe. Segerfeldt offers an efficient, sure, and safe alternative for this future. With this hope, I sincerely recommend this book." --Beatriz Merino, Former Prime Minister of Peru
"The critics of privatization insist that water is too important to be left to the mercies of private enterprise. In this fascinating study, Fredrik Segerfeldt demonstrates that the opposite is true: water is too important not to be subject to market forces. The debate should, he shows, not be over whether to take the supply and distribution of water away from incompetent government agencies and introduce prices, property rights, and private enterprise instead, but over how best to do so." --Martin Wolf, Associate Editor, Financial Times
Water for Sale : How Business and the Market Can Resolve the World's Water Crisis
Water for Sale: How Business and the Market Can Resolve the World's Water Crisis,Fredrik Segerfeldt,Cato Institute,1930865767,Business / Economics / Finance,Developing countries,Development - Sustainable Development,Government & Business,Nature,Nature/Ecology,Political Advocacy,Water Supply,Water resources development,Water-supply,Management of land & natural resources,Political Science / General
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