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Blue Covenant
The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water
 Written by Maude Barlow
Available: October 16, 2007
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 978-0-7710-1072-9 (0-7710-1072-9)
Also available in French, Arabic, Japanese, Portuguese, Korean, Greek, Turkish, and Spanish.
An Inconvenient Truth of water.
“Imagine a world in twenty years, in which no substantive progress has been made to provide basic wastewater service in the Third World, or to force industry and industrial agriculture production to stop polluting water systems, or to curb the mass movement of water by pipeline, tanker and other diversion, which will have created huge new swaths of desert."
“Desalination plants will ring the world’s oceans, many of them run by nuclear power; corporate nanotechnology will clean up sewage water and sell it to private utilities who will sell it back to us at a huge profit; the rich will drink only bottled water found in the few remote parts of the world left or sucked from the clouds by machines, while the poor die in increasing numbers. This is not science fiction. This is where the world is headed unless we change course.”
— Maude Barlow
“Maude Barlow makes a most compelling argument about what will be the greatest environmental and human crisis of the 21st Century - the global water crisis and access to safe drinking water being a basic human right. You will not turn on the tap in the same way after reading this book.” –Robert Redford, July 29, 2008
“A sobering read.... disturbing...Ms. Barlow's book is another in what can only be described as a gathering storm of evidence of the global water crisis.” –Globe and Mail
“Maude Barlow conjures a grim peek 20 years into the future...in Blue Covenant, she has tapped into an issue of primordial importance whose time has clearly come.” –Montreal Gazette
“The global water crisis is the first face of climate change. Protecting our water sources is as crucial as curbing greenhouse gas emissions. Maude Barlow has for decades been a leading voice for water sustainability and justice. In Blue Covenant, she shows us the way.” –David Suzuki, award-winning scientist, environmentalist, broadcaster and author of The Sacred Balance
“Blue Covenant is the most important book that’s ever been written on the global water crisis. It’s a wake-up call that should be read by everyone from world leaders to students. Maude Barlow has done it again—taken a difficult and frightening subject and made it an absorbing read.” –Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director, Food & Water Watch
"To sum up, the first three chapters of the book tell a grim, depressing and frightening story, but chapters four and five dispel the gloom (at least partly) and offer a degree of hope through their accounts of the battles fought by the water warriors, some of them remarkably successful, and of the progress of the idea of the right to water. " - The Hindu
Excerpt from Blue Covenant
Book tour photos:
Book tour multimedia:
- VIDEO: Maude Barlow discusses "Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water" at Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle., TVW - Washington State Public Affairs Network, April 14, 2008
- VIDEO: Water expert and author Maude Barlow links water desalination to climate change, E&E TV, OnPoint March 4, 2008
- VIDEO: Blue Covenant: Maude Barlow on the Global Movement for Water Justice, Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman, February 27, 2008
- VIDEO: Maude Barlow in Berkeley, California, February 20, 2008
- Maude Barlow speaking at the Book Passage in Corte Madera, California on water. Fora.TV, February 18, 2008
- Americans Encouraged to Keep a Blue Covenant, Fox Business News, February 11, 2008
- VIDEO: Maude Barlow addresses water issues on Allan Gregg in Conversation, TVO, February 8, 2008
- The Maudecast: Maude Barlow and the Three Myths of Water, November 5, 2007, Montreal, QC. Recorded by CITIZENShift.
- Should Canada sell water resources (with Maude Barlow)? November 5, 2007. Click on Hour One and Hour Two - CBC Radio Noon Montreal.
- Maude Barlow, Blue Covenant, October 31, 2007. Recorded by the Water Chronicles.
- Maude Barlow in Vancouver , October 30, 2007. Recorded by WorkingTV.
- Maude Barlow in Vancouver, October 30, 2007. Recorded by Radio Ecoshock.
- Maude Barlow in Victoria, October 29, 2007. Recorded by Lazarus Productions.
- Trickle Down: Interview with Maude Barlow, TheTyee.ca, October 29, 2007
- Maude Barlow interview with Vancouver Coop Radio - Blue Covenant and the right to water, October 27, 2007
- Maude Barlow addresses Edmonton crowd
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