Mike Gonzalez is Emeritus Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of The Ebb of the Pink Tide (Pluto, 2018) The Last Drop: The Politics of Water (Pluto, 2015) and Hugo Chavez: Socialist for the Twenty-first Century (Pluto, 2014). He is co-editor of Arms and the People (Pluto, 2012).Marianella Yanes is a Venezuelan journalist and writer for television and film. Until January 2009 she worked for the Venezuelan State Oil Corporation (PDVSA) as a journalist and documentary maker. She is the co-author of The Last Drop (Pluto, 2015).

• List of Figures, Tables and BoxesPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. A Floating Planet2. How Water was Privatised3. Disasters, Natural and Otherwise4. A Short Trip through Amazonia5. Bitter Harvests6. Virtual Water7. Water and Global Warming8. Ya Basta! Enough Is Enough!9. What Is to Be Done?10. A New World Water OrderNotesIndex

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Mike Gonzalez is Emeritus Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of The Ebb of the Pink Tide (Pluto, 2018) The Last Drop: The Politics of Water (Pluto, 2015) and Hugo Chavez: Socialist for the Twenty-first Century (Pluto, 2014). He is co-editor of Arms and the People (Pluto, 2012).Marianella Yanes is a Venezuelan journalist and writer for television and film. Until January 2009 she worked for the Venezuelan State Oil Corporation (PDVSA) as a journalist and documentary maker. She is the co-author of The Last Drop (Pluto, 2015).

• List of Figures, Tables and BoxesPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. A Floating Planet2. How Water was Privatised3. Disasters, Natural and Otherwise4. A Short Trip through Amazonia5. Bitter Harvests6. Virtual Water7. Water and Global Warming8. Ya Basta! Enough Is Enough!9. What Is to Be Done?10. A New World Water OrderNotesIndex

'Seminal'

Mike Gonzalez is Emeritus Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of The Ebb of the Pink Tide (Pluto, 2018) The Last Drop: The Politics of Water (Pluto, 2015) and Hugo Chavez: Socialist for the Twenty-first Century (Pluto, 2014). He is co-editor of Arms and the People (Pluto, 2012).Marianella Yanes is a Venezuelan journalist and writer for television and film. Until January 2009 she worked for the Venezuelan State Oil Corporation (PDVSA) as a journalist and documentary maker. She is the co-author of The Last Drop (Pluto, 2015).

• List of Figures, Tables and BoxesPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. A Floating Planet2. How Water was Privatised3. Disasters, Natural and Otherwise4. A Short Trip through Amazonia5. Bitter Harvests6. Virtual Water7. Water and Global Warming8. Ya Basta! Enough Is Enough!9. What Is to Be Done?10. A New World Water OrderNotesIndex

'Seminal'