TY - BOOK AU - Bakker, Karen J. TI - Privatizing water: governance failure and the world's urban wate r crisis SN - 9780801447235 (cloth : alk. paper) U1 - 363.6/1 22 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" -- Ma terial emblems of citizenship : creating "public" water -- Watering the thirsty poor : the water privatization debate -- Citizens without a ci ty : the techno-politics of urban water governance -- Protesting privat ization : transnational struggles over the human right to water -- Comm ons versus commodities : the ambiguous merits of community water-supply management -- Politics and biopolitics : debating ecological governanc e ER -