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      Edited by Lars Müller, Klaus Lanz, Christian Rentsch, and René Schwarzenbach with the support of EAWAG, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology With texts by Christian Rentsch et. al.

      Who Owns the Water?

      Design: Integral Lars Müller
      2006 | English | 16.5 × 24 cm | 536 pages | 256 photographs | hardcover
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Industrialization and population growth have brought about a global water crisis. Nature can no longer compensate the exploitation of our freshwater and our oceans. One billion people have no reliable access to clean drinking water; two billion live in precarious hygienic conditions. Famine, poverty, epidemics, and infant mortality are closely linked with the water crisis. Social, ecological, political, and economic conflicts obstruct efforts to resolve the global water crisis. Water is an instrument of power. The key question reads: Is water a commodity or is free access to water an inalienable human right?
By approaching water from a phenomenological perspective, Who owns the Water? seeks to persuade the reader that an element that is constantly flowing and changing defies all claims to own it, be they political or economic, and is instead the responsibility of the entire international community.

工業化や人口増加は世界的水の危機をもたらした。もはや自然は人間による真水や海水の搾取をかばいきれない状況だ。世界人口のうち10億人は清潔な飲み水資源を持たず、20億人は不安定な衛生環境の中で生活している。食料不足、貧困、伝染病、乳児死亡率は水の危機と密接につながっているのだ。そこで鍵となるのが、「水は商品なのか、水を得る事は人権において侵す事の出来ない自由な権利なのか?」という疑問だ。
『Who owns the Water?(水は誰の所有物か?)』は、水を現象学的視点から取り上げ、この絶え間なく移り変わっていく物質は、それを所有すると主張する政治的あるいは経済的なもの全てを否定し、これは国際社会全体の責任であると読者に語りかける。
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