Blue Gold, The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water, by Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, published by The New Press, 2002, ISBN-56584-731-8

The World's Water, The Biennial Report of Freshwater Resources 2002-2004, by Peter Gleick, published by Island Press, 2002, ISBN 1-55963-949-0

Water Follies, Groundwater Pumping and the fate of America's Fresh Waters by Robert Glennon, published by Island Press, 2002, ISBN 1-55963-223-2

whose water is it?, The Unquenchable Thirst of a Water-Hungry World, edited by Bernadette McDonald and Douglas Jehl, published by National Geographic Society, 2003, ISBN 0-7922-6238-7

Water Wars, Privatization, Pollution, and Profit, by Vandana Shiva, published by South End Press, 2002, ISBN 0-89608-650-X