'Seminal'
LSE Review of Books 'Water is a resource that belongs to all of us, and this perceptive book takes issue with the way global capitalism has redefined water as a commodity, and depicts the bitter harvest that has resulted from water privatisation.'
Richard Boyd Barrett T.D. (Member of Irish Parliament) 'A definitive analysis of the current world ... Read morewater challenge. To understand the “crisis of governance” that has changed water as a human right to a profitable commodity for financial interests, you must read The Last Drop.'
Marcela Olivera is the coordinator of the Red VIDA, an Inter-American water justice network. 'In this sobering account of hydro-politics, Gonzalez and Yanes remind us that human greed - not environmental inadequacy - lies at the heart of the global water 'crisis'.'
Dr Marcelle Dawson, Senior Lecturer in Sociology (University of Otago, New Zealand) and Vice-President, Research Committee 47 (Social Classes and Social Movements), International Sociological Association. 'Books like this are rare. Eloquent, poetic, enraged, committed, Marxist, environmentalist, written from the Global South, a book full of fire.'
Jonathan Neale, author of Stop Global Warming, Change the World 'A grim reminder and a wake-up call to liberate water from the predominant notion that 'whoever controls water controls society''
Current Science 'A positive, necessary, and timely introduction to the mammoth global problems we will face for some time to come'
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