title: Commodification of water--the wrong prescription.
abstract: The world faces a crisis of water stress and scarcity. This paper argues that current policies of economic globalization and privatisation are exacerbating environmental problems and that the real solutions will have a fundamentally different ethical basis.
authors.affiliation: Council of Canadians, Ottawa, Canada.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Barlow
mesh_terms: D003132:Commerce / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D014881:Water Supply