Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water

ISBN-13: 9781595584533 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 208 str.

Maude Barlow

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In a book hailed by Publishers Weekly as a passionate plea for access to water activism, Blue Covenant addresses an environmental crisis thattogether with global warmingposes one of the gravest threats to our survival.
How did the world s most vital resource become imperiled? And what must we do to pull back from the brink? In stark and nearly devastating prose (Booklist), world-renowned activist and bestselling author Maude Barlowwho is featured in the acclaimed documentary Flowdiscusses the state of the world s water. Barlow examines how water companies are reaping vast profits from declining supplies, and how ordinary people from around the world have banded together to reclaim the public s right to clean water, creating a grassroots global water justice movement. While tracing the history of international battles for the right to water, she documents the life-and-death stakes involved in the fight and lays out the actions that we as global citizens must take to secure a water-just world for all.
As people around the world turn their attention to the effects of climate change, Blue Covenant is a timely and important reminder for us to take heed of the global water crisis s impact on humans and the natural world."