| Karen Bakker is an Associate
Professor at the Department of Geography, and Director of the Program
on Water Governance at the University of British Columbia’s
Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability.
Her work on water management covers a broad range of topics, including
privatization, transboundary water governance, drought vulnerability,
demand management, pricing, and access to urban water supply in
developing countries.
She has worked on water management issues with governments, the
private sector, and NGOs; clients have included Environment Canada,
Natural Resources Canada, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities,
and the United Nations Development Program.
Bakker is the author of An Uncooperative Commodity: Privatizing
Water in England and Wales (2004, Oxford University Press),
the editor of Eau Canada, and many other reports on water
governance. More information and publications can be downloaded
from her website:
http://www.geog.ubc.ca/~bakker/
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