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In this "chilling, in-depth 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. Our most basic resource may one day be limited: our consumption doubles every twenty years-twice the rate of population increase. At the same time, increasingly transnational cor...

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In diesem Buch, erklärt die international renommierte Wasseraktivistin Maude Barlow die Grundprinzipien des »Blue Communities Project« und zeigt Schritt für Schritt, was wir alle tun können, um unser Wasser zu schützen.Das »Blue Communities Project« folgt drei grundlegenden Prinzipien: Der Zugang zu sauberem Trinkwasser ist ein Menschenrecht. Wasser gehört in die öffentliche Hand. Einwegwasserflaschen sollten an öffentlichen Orten nicht erhält...

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Die globale Wasserkrise hat sich in den letzten Jahren dramatisch verschärft: Dürreperioden, Verschmutzung und gigantomanische Eingriffe in die Natur drohen die Migration ganzer Bevölkerungsgruppen hervorzurufen. Doch noch ist Zeit, eine Tragödie abzuwenden. , , In "Blaue Zukunft" entwickelt die international bekannte Autorin und Wasseraktivistin Maude Barlow Lösungsvorschläge und erläutert an einer Fülle konkreter Beispiele, , &...

International tensions around water are rising in many of the world's most volatile regions. The policy recipe pursued by the West, and imposed on governments elsewhere, is to pass control over water to private interests. This book exposes the enormity of the problem, and the dangers of the proposed solution.

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Water is a human right: "A rousing case for what will be one of the key environmental challenges of the twenty-first century." -Booklist    The United Nations has recognized access to water as a basic human right-but there is still much work to be done to stem this growing environmental crisis. In this book, water activist Maude Barlow draws on her extensive experience to lay out a set of key principles that show the way forward to what she ca...

In a shocking expos, "Blue Gold, " available now in paperback, shows why, as the vice president of the World Bank has pronounced, "The wars of the next century will be about water.

In her bestselling books Blue Gold and Blue Covenant, world-renowned water activist Maude Barlow exposed the battle for ownership of our dwindling water supply and the emergence of an international, grassroots-led movement to reclaim water as a public good. Since then, the United Nations has recognized access to water as a basic human right--but there is still much work to be done to stem this growing crisis. In this major new book, Barlow dra...

Canada's greatest advocate considers our place in Bush's world order.Not since 1984, when Brian Mulroney went to New York and told a blue-chip business audience that Canada was "open for business, ” has there been such a push toward continental integration and a common market for North America. The big business community is eager to use the fear of terrorism to erase the border between our two countries as much as possible. The only conceivabl...

In "Blue Gold, " the authors exposed how a handful of corporations is gaining ownership and control of the Earths dwindling water supply. This follow-up describes a powerful response to this trend: the emergence of an international, grassroots-led movement to have water declared a basic human right.

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