Alan Snitow & Deborah Kaufman 
Thirst 
Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water

Out of sight of most Americans, global corporations like
Nestlé, Suez, and Veolia are rapidly buying up our local water
sources–lakes, streams, and springs–and taking control
of public water services. In their drive to privatize and commodify
water, they have manipulated and bought politicians, clinched
backroom deals, and subverted the democratic process by trying to
deny citizens a voice in fundamental decisions about their most
essential public resource.

The authors’ PBS documentary Thirst showed how
communities around the world are resisting the privatization and
commodification of water. Thirst, the book,
picks up where the documentary left off, revealing the emergence of
controversial new water wars in the United States and showing how
communities here are fighting this battle, often against companies
headquartered overseas.

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Table of Content

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

1. Water: Commodity or Human Right?

Battles for Water in the West.

2. Hardball vs. the High Road.

Stockton, California.

3. Small-Town Surprise for a Corporate Water Giant.

Felton, California.

Scandals in the South.

4. The Price of Incompetence.

Atlanta, Georgia.

5. The Hundred-Year War.

Lexington, Kentucky.

New England Skirmishes.

6. Keeping the Companies at Bay.

Lee, Massachusetts.

7. Cooking the Numbers.

Holyoke, Massachusetts.

Corporate Target: The Great Lakes.

8. When Nestlé Comes.

Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin.

9. To Quench a Thirst.

Mecosta County, Michigan.

10. Whose Water, Whose World Is It?

Notes.

Resources.

Index.

The Authors.

About the author

Alan Snitow is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and
journalist. Kaufman and Snitow’s films include Thirst,
Secrets of Silicon Valley, and Blacks and Jews.

Deborah Kaufman is a film producer, director, and
writer.

Michael Fox is a film critic, journalist, and
teacher.