In her bestselling books blue gold and blue covenant, worldrenowned water activist maude barlow exposed the battle. Maude barlow is a water rights activist and formerly served as the uns senior advisor on water. Flow for the love of water watch this awardwinning documentary investigation, featuring maude barlow, into the world water crisis. It took me just a few hours to finish reading maude barlows incisive, inspiring new book, whose water is it anyway taking water protection into public hands ecw press, 2019. It took me just a few hours to finish reading maude barlows incisive, inspiring new book, whose water is it anywaytaking water protection into public hands ecw press, 2019. The global water crisis and the coming battle for the right to water. Maude barlow is the honorary chairperson of the council of canadians and chairs the board of washingtonbased food and water watch. Maude barlows purpose in writing this article is to argue that companies need to stop overusing water and to give it to nations that are in need of it. Once again, maude barlow delivers an urgent warning that we are treating this priceless liquid in ways that are unjust, unhealthy, unsustainable, and suicidal. Barlow examines how water companies are reaping vast profits from declining supplies, and how ordinary people from around the world. This third book in the authors triology on the world water crisis and her insightful solutions convey the knowledge and vision the world so desperately needs in attempts to put this planet on a sustainable path. Maude victoria barlow is a canadian author and activist. Maude victoria barlow born may 24, 1947 is a canadian author and activist.
Photo by michelle valberg what are some of the threats that water privatization poses to communities. The authors, however, bring into focus the following strong points. The fight to stop the corporate theft of the world. Maude barlow shares her insights into the looming water crisis having recently finished a new book. Maude barlow, bestselling author and activist, explores the urgent need for water protection in a world that is running out of fresh water. She is the honorary chairperson of the council of canadians, a citizens advocacy organization with members and chapters across canada. Maude barlows presentation today at the komoks band hall is not just another stop on the tour to promote her new book, whose water is it, anyway. She was a founding member of the council in 1985 and has served as its voluntary chair since 1988. Maude barlow, the canadian who has become one of earths great defenders of clean, free water, calls her fourth book on the subject whose water is it anyway. Maude barlow is the international bestselling author of 19 books, including the bestselling blue water trilogy.
In this chilling, indepth examination of a rapidly emerging global crisis in these times, maude barlow and tony clarke, two of the most active opponents to the privatization of water show how, contrary to received wisdom, water mainly flows uphill to the wealthy. Maude barlow and tony clarke are both activists of preservation of the ecosystem and in this book, they establish a common theme. Concluding with a stepbystep guide to making your own community blue, maude barlow s latest book is a heartening example of how ordinary people can effect enormous change. Maude barlow s book addressing how the worlds most vital natural resource became so imperiled and what we must do to pull back from the brink. Watch the 1998 national film board of canada documentary about maude barlows life and early work with the council of canadians. Blue future is the inspiring climax of her visionary trilogy on the world water crisis. David suzuki, scientist, environmentalist, and broadcaster maude barlow is a force of nature. She is also an executive member of the san franciscobased international forum on globalization and a councillor with the hamburgbased world future council. It is the battle against the corporate world here in particular the theft of the worlds water.
Aug 29, 2003 maude barlow is the national chairperson of the council of canadians, and the bestselling author of twelve other books. Maude barlows blue future is a powerful and inspiring book that alerts the world to a looming disaster unless quick action is taken to conserve and fairly distribute our precious water. Robert glennon is a leadingedge legal scholar and passionate water advocate whose thinking is central to an intense debate on the path forward to a watersecure world. The primary message of maud barlow and tony clarkes book echoes the blue planet project, a global campaign to assert the universal right to water, of which barlow is one of the international leaders. We spoke to barlow about the different forms that water privatization can take, the solutions offered by blue communities and our biggest water threat. Barlow is the national chairperson of the council of canadians, canadas largest public advocacy organization with 65,000 members. She is also the cofounder of the blue planet project, which works internationally for the human right to water. The global water crisis is undeniable the council of canadians coc told prime minister stephen harper in a letter sent on the occasion of the 2007 international womens day. Since then, the united nations has recognized access to water as a basic human rightbut there is. Naomi klein, bestselling author of this changes everything and the shock doctrine. Activist maude barlow launches new book in peterborough.
Maude barlow is one of our planets greatest water defenders. Protecting water for people and the planet forever. Boyd, author of the environmental rights revolution. She has served on the executive of the global alliance for the rights of nature and is a councillor with the hamburgbased world future council. Maude barlow has been sounding the alarm on water privatization for years, and shes right, while mainstream american environmental leaders have ignored her, said noah hall, wayne state university professor and water law expert. In boiling point, bestselling author and activist maude barlow lays bare the issues facing canadas water reserves, including longoutdated water laws, unmapped and unprotected groundwater reserves, agricultural pollution, industrialwaste dumping, boilwater advisories, and the effects of deforestation and climate change. In her bestselling books blue gold and blue covenant, worldrenowned water activist maude barlow exposed the battle for ownership of our dwindling water. Jan 02, 2003 the global water crisis is undeniable the council of canadians coc told prime minister stephen harper in a letter sent on the occasion of the 2007 international womens day. Author, maude barlow, in her article, water incorporated. She also chairs the board of washingtonbased food and water watch and is a councillor with the hamburgbased world future council. Council of canadians chair maude barlow discusses her latest book, boiling point.
Today, paris, berlin, bern, and montreal are just a few of the cities that have made themselves blue communities. When this occurs, it is very tempting for greedy owners to increase the price any time they wish. Sep 04, 2019 we spoke to barlow about the different forms that water privatization can take, the solutions offered by blue communities and our biggest water threat. Naomi klein, author of the battle for paradise a sobering, indepth look at the growing scarcity of fresh water and the increasing privatization and corporate control of this nonrenewable resource. Sep 18, 2019 maude barlow has been sounding the alarm on water privatization for years, and shes right, while mainstream american environmental leaders have ignored her, said noah hall, wayne state university professor and water law expert. I know, that sounds weird, but im not quite sure how else to describe a book that goes over water privatization and this is a book about hope. Corporate theft of the worlds water, maude barlow and tony clarke take a comprehensive look at the state of the worlds water condition and respond to the push to privatize the fresh water supplies as the solution to meeting the worlds water needs. Maude barlows blue gold is an eye opening book that helps us to see what is happening to our water. Ways out of the global water crisis maude barlow and dr. Whose water is it, anyway taking water protection into. Oct 22, 2019 maude barlows presentation today at the komoks band hall is not just another stop on the tour to promote her new book, whose water is it, anyway. She is the honorary chair of the council of canadians and of the washingtonbased food and water watch.
Maude barlow has spent her life learning about water and sharing information and sounding the alarm about what humans are doing it. Maude barlows book addressing how the worlds most vital natural resource became so imperiled and what we must do to pull back from the brink. Barlow and clarke begin the book by examining the eco. Nov, 2019 maude barlow, the canadian who has become one of earths great defenders of clean, free water, calls her fourth book on the subject whose water is it anyway. Maude barlow speakers bureau and booking agent info. With the world teetering on the brink of a devastating water crisis, humanity urgently needs the vision, wisdom, and solutions in blue future. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read blue covenant. In her bestselling books blue gold and blue covenant, worldrenowned water activist maude barlow exposed the battle for ownership of our dwindling water supply and the emergence of an international, grassrootsled movement to reclaim water as a public good. Maude barlow is the head of the council of canadians, canadas largest public advocacy organization, and founder of the blue planet project. Ways out of the global water crisis maude barlow and dr jorg. The commodification of the worlds water, explains how nations are on the verge of depleting the worlds water supply. Maude barlow s blue gold is an eye opening book that helps us to see what is happening to our water. Since then, the united nations has recognized access to water as a basic human rightbut there is still much work to be done to stem.
Maude is the recipient of fourteen honorary doctorates as well as many awards, including the 2005. She is a director of the international forum on globalization and cofounder of the blue planet project, a global citizens movement to protect water. May 12, 2007 maude barlow shares her insights into the looming water crisis having recently finished a new book. Maude barlow is the national chairperson of the council of canadians and senior advisor on water to the united nations. The blue communities project is dedicated to three primary things. But apocalyptic thinking is the last thing author and activist maude barlow wants to impose on readers of her fifth book on water, whose water is it. The letter reiterates what cocs national volunteer chairperson maude barlow wrote nearly 20 years ago in her book, parcel of rogues. I heartily recommend his provocative, informationpacked, and highly readable new book unquenchable. Naomi klein, bestselling author of this changes everything and the shock doctrine this book is a blueprint for communities around the world to take back that responsibility and maintain water as a human right. Maude barlow is the honorary chairperson of the council of canadians and founder of the blue planet.
She discusses the hydrological damage caused by pollution and by the displacement and diversion of water. Robert glennon is a leadingedge legal scholar and passionate water advocate whose thinking is central to an intense debate on the path forward to a water secure world. As water becomes increasingly scarce the issue is moving up the political agendain the united states, china and parts of europe particularly. Protecting water for people and the planet forever, new york. Barlow examines how water companies are reaping vast profits from declining supplies, and how ordinary people from around the world have banded together to reclaim the publics right to clean water, creating a grassroots global water justice movement. This wellresearched book provides a sobering, indepth look at the growing scarcity of fresh water and the increasing privatization and corporate control of this nonrenewable resource. Maude barlow and tony clarke combine visionary intellect with muckraking research and a concrete plan for action. Your book focuses on canada, a country we would have expected to have enough water, given its abundance of lakes and rivers. Water activist maude barlow wants everyone to know that they have a role to play when it comes to bringing changes to better protect our most precious resource. There remains as much cause for alarm over the worlds depleted, poorly managed and increasingly corporatized freshwater stores as there was when maude barlow and her writing partner tony clarke.
Canadian maude barlow has written previous books about grass roots efforts to take back control of their water resources after having been bought out by corporations in the interest of deregulation. This book is a blueprint for communities around the world to take back that. Maude barlow was one of the women for peace nominated for the 2005 nobel peace prize. Oct 16, 2012 author, maude barlow, in her article, water incorporated. Mar 12, 2020 in her bestselling books blue gold and blue covenant, worldrenowned water activist maude barlow exposed the battle for ownership of our dwindling water supply and the emergence of an international, grassrootsled movement to reclaim water as a public good. Jan 10, 2019 maude barlow explains the blue planet project and fundamental water rights to big think. Oct 18, 20 there remains as much cause for alarm over the worlds depleted, poorly managed and increasingly corporatized freshwater stores as there was when maude barlow and her writing partner tony clarke. Taking water protection into public hands, she explores the how the blue communities project gives people tools they can use to protect water the blue communities project is dedicated to. Maude barlow explains the role of the council of canadians. Government neglect, corporate abuse, and canadas water crisis with paul moist at. Contact all american speakers bureau to inquire about speaking fees and availability, and book the best keynote speaker for your next event. The global water crisis and the coming battle for the right to water ebook written by maude barlow.
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