The world's leading water warrior has issued a call to arms and a road map to transform our economies and priorities to protect our most precious resource- water. Naomi Klein, Author of The Shock Doctrine For decades Barlow has been on the front lines of this critical battle and her insights on how water can serve as our guide to a more just, sustainable world are a gift to us all. Paul Moist, National President, Canadian Union of Public EmployeesĪs clear as a pristine mountain stream, Maude Barlow lays out a practical and inspiring vision for how we can defend water - the source of all life - from the forces of death. We owe much to Maude Barlow, a great Canadian and a leading global voice for public water. challenges all citizens to embrace water as a public trust. About the authorīlue Future offers yet another clarion call to action. A call to action to create a water-secure world, it is, in the end, a book of hope. The final instalment in Barlow’s Blue trilogy, Blue Future includes inspiring stories of struggle and resistance from marginalized communities, as well as examples of government policies that work for people and the planet.
Principle Four: Water Will Teach Us How to Live Together urges us to come together around a common threat - the end of water - and find a way to live more lightly on this planet. Principle Three: Water Has Rights Too makes the case for the protection of source water and the need to make our human laws compatible with those of nature. Principle Two: Water Is a Common Heritage and Public Trust argues that water must not become a commodity to be bought and sold on the open market. Principle One: Water Is a Human Right chronicles the long fight to have the human right to water recognized and the powerful players still impeding this progress. In Blue Future, international bestselling author Maude Barlow offers solutions to the global water crisis based on four simple principles. The story does not need to end in tragedy. The stage is being set for drought on an unprecedented scale, mass starvation, and the migration of millions of refugees leaving parched lands in search of water. The global water crisis has dramatically deepened. The final book in Maude Barlow’s Blue trilogy, Blue Future is a powerful, penetrating, and timely look at the global water crisis - and what we can do to prevent it.
Selected for The Globe 100 Books in 2013.
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