Free water’ as commodity: The paradoxes of durban’s water service transformations

The Age of Commodity: Water Privatization in Southern Africa

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 189-205

  Loftus, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84925698008     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781849772860     Document Type: Chapter

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