Whose Water Is It, Anyway? by Maude Barlow

Sales and Market Bullets - 'Maude Barlow is one of our planet's greatest water defenders.' - Naomi Klein, bestselling author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine - This is a must-read.' - Jane Fonda on Whose Water Is It Anyway? - Author of 19 books, Barlow served as the Senior Advisor on Water to the 63rd President of the UN General Assembly (2008-2009) and led a campaign to have water recognized as a human right by the U.N. She is the recipient of the Right Livelihood Award and current chancellor of Brescia University. She served as senior water advisor to the UN General Assembly and was a leader in the campaign to have water recognized as a human right.

She sits on the board of Food & Water Watch, the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature, and is a councillor with the World Future Council. Maude Barlow is the bestselling author of 20 books. From her days in second wave feminist activism to her battle against the precursor to NAFTA to her indefatigable fight for social justice and water rights for all, Maude shares her stories and her expertise to inspire us and show us how we can do it too. But she also knows that change does happen and that hope is the essential ingredient. Barlow knows firsthand how hard fighting for change can be.

From each of these she draws her lessons of hope, emphasizing that effective activism is not really about the goal, rather it is about building a movement and finding like-minded people to carry the load with you. She has been a linchpin in three major movements in her life: second-wave feminism, the battle against free trade and globalization, and the global fight for water justice. Blue Communities is a short, practical handbook on how you can advocate for your community to become a blue community, and gives a history of the movement that started the project.'Canada's best-known voice of dissent.' - CBC 'It's time we listened to the Maude Barlows of the world.' - CNN In this timely book, Barlow counters the prevailing atmosphere of pessimism that surrounds us and offers lessons of hope that she has learned from a lifetime of activism. To do this, the project offers resolutions that recognize water and sanitation as human rights, ban or phase out the sale of bottled water in public facilities and at public events, and promote publicly financed, owned, and operated water and wastewater services.

The Blue Communities Project encourages communities around the world to support the idea that water is a shared resource for all.

Whose Water Is It, Anyway? by Maude Barlow