Events

 

World Water Day 2008 (March 22)

UN-Water is coordinating the 'Water for Life' Decade, 2005-2015. 2008 marks a UN focus on sanitation.


National Water Policy Congress (Ankara, Turkey) March 20-22, 2008


Valentine's Day Roses

Read the REPORT!


News

 

[23-Apr-08] Turkey Plans to Sell Rivers and Lakes to Corporations

[06-Mar-08] UK Government to ban bottled water from offices

[27-Feb-08] Maude Barlow on ‘Democracy Now!’ with Amy Goodman. You can access her interview on ‘Blue Covenant’ by audio, video or MP3.

 

[14-Feb-08] Los Angeles Times' Online blog featuring Maude Barlow

[14-Feb-08] Maude Barlow interviewed on AlterNet by Tara Lohan

[12-Feb-08] Canadian activist in Hollywood to stop flower corporations from destroying Lake Naivasha for Valentine's Day sales

[08-Feb-08] VIDEO: Maude Barlow addresses water issues on Allan Gregg in Conversation, TVO

[31-Jan-08] Groups call to protect people in Kenya, not corporate flower farms

NEW REPORT on flower industry! In time for Valentine's Day ! Lake Naivasha, Kenya, withering under the assault of international flower vendors (PDF), report by Food & Water Watch and The Council of Canadians, February 2008


 

Excerpt from Blue Covenant: The Right to Water: An Idea Whose Time Has Come pages 164-175. (PDF)


Blue October 2007

VIDEO - Norwegian Blue October 2007 water action with parliamentarians

Launch of the AFRICAN WATER NETWORK at the 7th World Social Forum, in Nairobi, Kenya. (January 2007)

Report:  Read Maude Barlow's report from the World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya (January 2007)


Materials

NEW MOVIE! 2008 will see the release of international award winning filmmaker Sam Bozzo's new feature documentary 'Blue Gold: Life For Sale', inspired by Maude Barlow's and Tony Clarke's groundbreaking book Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water.

Civil society campaigners, trade unionists and public water managers report from World Water Week, Stockholm, August 12–18 2007.

New!  UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Examines the Right to Water

Statement:  Submission to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights regarding upcoming report on the Human Right to Water (PDF) July 2007

Media Release:  Canadian activist on Stern Magazine’s alternative G8 list

Article:  Panel probes water and human security (review of Maude Barlow's presentation on Water and Security in Alberta, Canada, January 2007)
Audio:  Listen to an excerpt of this presentation

 

 

 

“The growth of a democratic global water justice movement is a critical and positive development that will bring needed accountability, transparency and public oversight to the water crisis as conflicts over water loom on the horizon”

(Maude Barlow, Blue Covenant, 141)

 

Watch BLUE GOLD: World Water Wars

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