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Essential Resource The Business of Water: Privatizing An
Essential Resource In her 2002 book titled, "Water Wars," noted
author, social activist, and ecologist Vandana Shiva called
privatizing water: - ecological terrorism; - a global water
crisis; - along with overuse, waste and pollution, it can cause
"the most pervasive, most severe, and most invisible dimension
of the ecological devastation of the earth;" - the road to "an
ecological crisis with commercial causes but no market
solutions; (they) destroy the earth and aggravate inequality;
the solution to an ecological crisis is ecological, and the
solution for injustice is democracy;" and - water rights are
natural and "usufructuary....water can be used but not owned;"
it belongs to everyone as part of the commons as an essential
"basis of all life....under customary laws, the right to water
has been accepted as a natural, social fact." Shiva lists nine
water democracy principles: (1) it's nature'