Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water |
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.” – Maude Barlow |
 |
Lake Superior is almost two feet below its normal levels. Arizona is officially out of water and must import from neighbouring states. Beijing may have to move because soon there won’t be enough water left to supply the city. How did the world’s largest resource become so imperiled? Is Canada’s water for sale? And more importantly, what do we have to do to draw back from the brink? Sobering, inspiring, essential, Blue Covenant addresses the state of the world’s water, 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. Dubbed “Canada’s best-known voice of dissent” by the CBC, Maude Barlow has proven herself again and again to be on the leading edge of issues Canadians care deeply about. In Blue Covenant, Barlow lays out the actions that we as global citizens must take to secure a water-just world — a “blue covenant” for all. Written by Maude Barlow. Published by McCelland & Stewart Ltd., 2007. |
| Catalogue No. | 978-0-7710-1072-9 |
| Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Softcover |
| Pages | 234 |
| Language | English only |
 |
| Price and availability subject to change.
Shipping and applicable taxes extra. Questions about this product? Please e-mail us. This page last modified: December 13, 2007 |
| Environment main page · Natural Resources main page |
| What's New · Home · Search · Books on Canada · Canadian Maps and Charts · Ordering · E-mail Us |
©Federal Publications Inc., 1998 - 2008 165 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5H 3B8 Phone: (416) 860-1611 or toll-free 1-888-433-3782 · E-mail: info@fedpubs.com |