Neoliberalizing water

TY - CHAP

T1 - Neoliberalizing water

AU - Loftus, Alex

AU - Budds, Jessica

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2016 Simon Springer, Kean Birch and Julie MacLeavy. Copyright: Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

PY - 2016/7/7

Y1 - 2016/7/7

N2 - The water sectors in both the global North and the global South have been one of the last areas of public service provision to be subjected to neoliberal reforms. Although many other basic human needs (food, shelter, energy) have been formally bought and sold as commodities for significantly longer periods of time, mediating access to water through exchange is particularly contentious because it places the most essential human need in the hands of private parties, and, in some cases, subjects the management of such an important productive resource to market forces. It is this tension between human needs and private profits that is at the heart of debates about the neoliberalization of water.

AB - The water sectors in both the global North and the global South have been one of the last areas of public service provision to be subjected to neoliberal reforms. Although many other basic human needs (food, shelter, energy) have been formally bought and sold as commodities for significantly longer periods of time, mediating access to water through exchange is particularly contentious because it places the most essential human need in the hands of private parties, and, in some cases, subjects the management of such an important productive resource to market forces. It is this tension between human needs and private profits that is at the heart of debates about the neoliberalization of water.

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85107106836&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.4324/9781315730660-57

DO - 10.4324/9781315730660-57

M3 - Chapter

AN - SCOPUS:85107106836

SN - 9781138844001

SP - 503

EP - 513

BT - Handbook of Neoliberalism

PB - Taylor and Francis Inc.

ER -