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A private American consortium of corporate owners aims to pipe and ship water from northern Quebec to the US. Congressmen, state governors, and a federal administration hostile to Canada ride shotgun for them, aided by a brilliant, existentially torn Quebec deputy minister and a cut-throat minister of finance. They're resisted by a whistle-blowing executive, the director of a major US environmental organization, a group of Quebec ecologists, a feisty British journalist, three rogue policemen, a reluctant eco-terrorist, and a maverick Vermont governor hated by the consortium and the White House. In an era during which water scarcity--"one of the major problems of the twenty-first century," according to the UN--becomes a very real proposition for much of the world, Water, Inc. is an exquisitely timed political thriller. With action sprawling across urban and rural America, into the cities and beautiful wilderness of Quebec, and as far as Mexico, Lisbon, London, and Brussels, it is a story of greed, heroism, clashing loyalties, love, hate, and mortal risk.… (más)
Varda Burstyn is a distinguished environmental writer and her début novel – an accomplished eco-thriller – confirms her as an author who knows her subject inside out. Water Inc concerns a consortium of American billionaires who recognize the impending water crisis that their greed has created. These magnates plot, with the collusion of politicians and officials, to pipe water from northern Quebec into the parched and drought-ridden US. They are unconcerned that this massive water-grab will have disastrous ecological consequences for the flora, fauna and peoples of Quebec, and they are prepared to go to any lengths, including murder, to protect the secrecy of their multibillion dollar scheme. Opposing them is a disparate group including a disillusioned executive, Canadian activists for eco-justice, a campaigning journalist and assorted rogue police and computer hackers. ( )
Ein genialer Öko-Thriller, der ein durchaus aktuelles Thema behandelt, nämlich die Privatisierung der Grundwasservorräte in Kanada durch US-amerikanische Firmen. Solche Pläne wurden ja unter der Regierung Bush ins Auge gefasst. Burstin schildert die Strategie der US Konzerne, die die Grundwasservorräte in gering besiedelten Regionen Kanadas, wo vorwiegend indianische Ureinwohner leben, unter ihre Kontrolle bringen möchten. Die Pläne der Konzerne reichen von Pipelines für Wasser von Kanada bis Texas, wo die Agrarindustrie die Grundwasservorräte längst verbraucht hat und die Fließgewässer mit Düngern und Pflanzenschutzmitteln verseucht, bis zum Verkauf von Trinkwasser in Flaschen. Los Angeles und San Francisco leiden unter Wassermangel und stellen für die Wasserkonzerne einen großen Markt dar. Burstin erfindet eine glaubwürdige Geschichte, in der eine Gruppe von Investoren zusammengetrommelt wird, die ihre Kontakte zum Weißen Haus und zu einigen Gouverneuren in südlichen US Bundesstaaten nutzen, um die Kanadische Regierung unter Druck zu setzen, einer solchen Plünderung der Wasservorräte zu zustimmen. Die US Medien, die auf Inserate angewiesen sind, werden durch Erpressung in Schach gehalten, um kritische Berichterstattung zu verhindern. Ehemalige Geheimdienstleute spielen eine wichtige Rolle dabei, die voraussehbare Umweltzerstörung durch das Wasserprojekt vor der Öffentlichkeit zu verbergen. Für FreundInnen spannender Krimis ein MUSS. ( )
A private American consortium of corporate owners aims to pipe and ship water from northern Quebec to the US. Congressmen, state governors, and a federal administration hostile to Canada ride shotgun for them, aided by a brilliant, existentially torn Quebec deputy minister and a cut-throat minister of finance. They're resisted by a whistle-blowing executive, the director of a major US environmental organization, a group of Quebec ecologists, a feisty British journalist, three rogue policemen, a reluctant eco-terrorist, and a maverick Vermont governor hated by the consortium and the White House. In an era during which water scarcity--"one of the major problems of the twenty-first century," according to the UN--becomes a very real proposition for much of the world, Water, Inc. is an exquisitely timed political thriller. With action sprawling across urban and rural America, into the cities and beautiful wilderness of Quebec, and as far as Mexico, Lisbon, London, and Brussels, it is a story of greed, heroism, clashing loyalties, love, hate, and mortal risk.
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