Tapping the Oceans

Edited by Joe Williams, University of Bristol and Erik Swyngedouw, Professor of Geography, School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester, UK

• Contents:1. Mobilising the oceans to quench our thirstJoe Williams and Erik Swyngedouw2. Wet dreams with a grain of salt: Desalination in Spain's water policyDavid Saurἰ, Santiago Gorostiza and David Pavón3. Water Governance and Desalination in Baja California Sur, MexicoJamie McEvoy4. On the Implications of Seawater Desalination: Some Insights from the Israeli CaseEran Feitelson5. Disclosing water inequalities at the household level under desalination water provision; the case of Antofagasta, ChileMaria Christina Fragkou6. Desalination as emergency fix: Tracing the drought–desalination assemblage in South AfricaSuraya Scheba and Andreas Scheba 7. Worlding via water: Desalination, cluster development and the ‘stickiness’ of commoditiesMark Usher8. Financialising desalination in London: The Thames Desalination Plant (TWDP)Alex Loftus and Hug March9. Commodifying the Pacific Ocean: Desalination and the neoliberalisation of water in Southern CaliforniaJoe Williams10. Politicizing the salt of the seasErik Swyngedouw and Joe WilliamsIndex

'This very timely book provides an excellent and insightful introduction to the entanglements of water, salt, power, and capital in the emergence of an alleged environmentally friendly and cornucopian solution to increasing water scarcity. It helps decipher how desalination is fast becoming the last frontier of capital accumulation for both the water industry and financiers, and how it reconfigures existing socio-ecologies in profound and subtle ways.'--François Molle, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), France