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"This book explores how tools of the Digital Age might be mobilized to solve our most pressing environmental challenges, from climate change to biodiversity loss. It argues that digital technology might accelerate environmental sustainability and that engaging with environmental issues may transform Big Tech for the better, if the sector successfully addresses spiraling energy use, pollution, privacy and surveillance issues"--

Privatizing Water -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Defining "Privatization": A Note on Terminology -- Introduction: Privatization and the Urban Water Crisis -- Part I. Development, Urbanization, and the Governance of Thirst -- 1. Governance Failure: Reframing the Urban Water Supply Crisis -- 2. Material Emblems of Citizenship: Creating Public Water -- 3. Watering the Thirsty Poor: The Water Privatization Debate -- 4. Citizens without a City: The Techno-Politics of Urban Water Governance -- Part II. Beyond Privatization: Debating Alternatives -- 5. Protesting Privatization: Transnational Struggles over the Human Right to Water -- 6. Commons versus Commodities: The Ambiguous Merits of Community Water-Supply Management -- 7. Politics and Biopolitics: Debating Ecological Governance -- Conclusion: Beyond Privatization -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Introduction : Privatization and the urban water crisis -- Governance failure : reframing the urban water supply "crisis" -- Material emblems of citizenship : creating "public" water -- Watering the thirsty poor : the water privatization debate -- Citizens without a city : the techno-politics of urban water governance -- Protesting privatization : transnational struggles over the human right to water -- Commons versus commodities : the ambiguous merits of community water-supply management -- Politics and biopolitics : debating ecological governance -- Conclusion : Beyond privatization

Résumé Ces deux dernières décennies, la participation du secteur privé a été l'une des questions les plus controversées de la gestion des réseaux urbains de l'eau dans les pays en voie de développement. Cet article s'intéresse aux tendances récentes sur cette question, et présente de façon synthétique des éléments qui semblent montrer que le modèle le plus courant – des compagnies multinationales, engagées dans des contrats de délégation de service public à long terme – a connu un repli stratégique. L'analyse expose brièvement la réorientation stratégique du secteur privé, et suit l'évolution subséquente des doctrines et débats concernant la gestion privée ou publique de l'approvisionnement en eau. En guise de conclusion, l'article suggère la nécessité d'élargir nos conceptions de la gouvernance pour prendre en compte les questions du pouvoir et des politiques dans le contexte d'une citoyenneté urbaine.

"This book explores how tools of the Digital Age might be mobilized to solve our most pressing environmental challenges, from climate change to biodiversity loss. It argues that digital technology might accelerate environmental sustainability and that engaging with environmental issues may transform Big Tech for the better, if the sector successfully addresses spiraling energy use, pollution, privacy and surveillance issues"--