For anyone who is really interested in learning more about the commoditization/commodification of water in our world today, I highly recommend reading Blue Gold. The people directly impacted and their reaction to commoditization is also discussed with references to the Water Wars.
Blue Gold is written by Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke. You'll probably see Maude Barlow in Flow.
I would also like to suggest Imperial Nature: The World Bank and Struggles for Social Justice in the Age of Globalization, which allows the reader to understand the method in which the World Bank passively conjures and actively sells Neo-liberal ideology such as the privatization of utilties in third world countries.
Finally, this wonderfully impassioned article in The Washington Post by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about what the President can do to help with mountaintop removal. Most importantly Kennedy's discussion of why mountaintop removal does not help local economies is refreshing.
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