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Is Water the New Oil?
The Humanities Center Lectures present Karen Piper, associate professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Piper's talk is titled "Is Water 'The New Oil'?: The New Water Monopolies and the World's Poor." Piper will discuss how the world's water supplies are gradually being bought up by a handful of multinational companies, including Suez, Vivendi and Bechtel. These companies, in turn, are supported by World Bank policies that force poorer countries to privatize their water supplies. Piper will look at the consequences of water privatization today, sharing her research in India and South Africa and exploring the stark disparity between World Bank rhetoric and conditions on the ground, or what cartographers call "ground truth." The talk is co-sponsored by the Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics & Political Philosophy.
Last modified: Sep 2, 2009 2:58:09 PM EDT
Date created: Sep 2, 2009
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