TY - BOOK AU - Bakker,Karen J. TI - Privatizing water: governance failure and the world's urban water crisis SN - 9780801474644 (pbk. : alk. paper) : AV - HD4456 .B35 2010 PY - 2010/// CY - Ithaca, N.Y. PB - Cornell University Press KW - Municipal water supply KW - Political aspects KW - Water utilities KW - Deregulation KW - Privatization KW - Right to water N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Governance failure : reframing the urban water supply "crisis" -- Material emblems of citizenship : creating "public" water -- Watering the thirsty poor : the water privatization debate -- Citizens without a city : the techno-politics of urban water governance -- Protesting privatization : transnational struggles over the human right to water -- Commons versus commodities : the ambiguous merits of community water-supply management -- Politics and biopolitics : debating ecological governance ER -