Whose Water Is It, Anyway?: Taking Water Protection into Public Hands

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'This is a must-read.' - Jane Fonda, read the full article here The Blue Communities Project encourages communities around the world to support the idea that water is a shared resource for all. 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. 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.

Maude Barlow is the international bestselling author of 19 books, including the bestselling Blue Water trilogy. She is the honorary chair of the Council of Canadians and of the Washington-based Food and Water Watch. She is on the executive committee of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature and a councillor with the World Future Council. In 2008-09, she served as senior advisor on water to the 63rd president of the UN General Assembly and was a leader in the campaign to have water recognized as a human right by the UN. In 2005, she won the prestigious Right Livelihood Award, the "alternative Nobel." She lives in Ottawa, Ontario.

"If water shortages and global unrest are on your mind -- and they should be -- read this book." -- Caryn Mandelbaum, Water Program Director, Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation "This is a must-read." -- Jane Fonda "Water inflates cells of all life forms, enables biological metabolism, transports materials throughout our bodies and around the world and provides an aqueous environment for our first nine months of life. Water is not a 'resource' or 'economic opportunity' but a sacred gift from Nature that is our responsibility to protect and use sparingly so that all life on Earth may flourish. This book is a blueprint for communities around the world to take back that responsibility and maintain water as a human right." -- David Suzuki "Whose Water Is It, Anyway? is in fact a bouncy book of hope ... Amid all the frustrations and disappointments of the global environmental crisis, Barlow seems to have hit upon a really good idea ... What Barlow is teaching us with this punchy little book is that, yes, there can be hope." -- the Globe and Mail "In Whose Water Is It, Anyway?: Taking Water Protection into Public Hands, Barlow passionately describes the history of how water, on a global scale, has been systematically transformed from a public good to an economic commodity -- right under our noses ... Fortunately, Barlow provides a blueprint for the work and pathway for hope." -- Winnipeg Free Press