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Barton H. Thompson, Jr. is Robert E. Paradise Professor of Natural Resources Law at Stanford Law School, Professor of Environmental Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, and a Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment. He has written and co-authored several books, his most recent being Environmental Law and Policy, 5th edition (2019).
"""An engaging and well-written blueprint for harnessing private sector ingenuity and profit-motive in order to protect and preserve our most precious natural resource.""—Nicole Neeman Brady, Vice President of the Los Angeles Board of Water and Power Commissioners ""Liquid Asset, by one of the nation's preeminent water law scholars, presents a clarion call for greater involvement by the business community in global water management and security. This broad-ranging examination offers original insights for effective environmental stewardship.""—Robert Glennon, University of Arizona College of Law, author of Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What to Do About It ""Liquid Asset explores the critical questions of why, where, and how the private sector owns and manages water. A gifted teacher, Barton H. Thompson, Jr is admirably evenhanded in highlighting the risks and explaining the opportunities. If you want to understand the future of water management in the United States, read this book.""—James Salzman, UCLA Law School and author of Drinking Water: A History ""Putting the words 'water' and 'privatization' in the same sentence can be a hazard. ""But given the critical imbalance between water supply and demand, Thompson is willing to risk the hazard. In Liquid Asset, he argues that the private sector's capabilities for managing the resource and rebuilding crumbling systems are too important to ignore.""—Felicity Barringer, Stanford Lawyer"
