Whose Water Is It, Anyway? by Maude Barlow

Concluding with a step-by-step guide to making your own community blue, Maude Barlow's latest book is a heartening example of how ordinary people can effect enormous change.

In Whose Water Is It, Anyway?, renowned water justice activist Maude Barlow recounts her own education in water issues as she and her fellow grassroots water warriors woke up to the immense pressures facing water in a warming world. Today, Paris, Berlin, Bern, and Montreal are just a few of the cities that have made themselves Blue Communities. With its simple, straightforward approach, the movement has been growing around the world for a decade. The Blue Communities Project is dedicated to three primary things: that access to clean, drinkable water is a basic human right that municipal and community water will be held in public hands and that single-use plastic water bottles will not be available in public spaces. Concluding with a step-by-step guide to making your own community blue, Maude Barlow’s latest book is a heartening example of how ordinary people can effect enormous change.'Maude Barlow is one of our planet's greatest water defenders.' (Naomi Klein, best-selling author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine )

Her latest book is Whose Water is it Anyway Taking Water Protection Into Public Hands. She is also chancellor of Brescia University College. “This book is a blueprint for communities around the world to take back that responsibility and maintain water as a human right.” - David SuzukiĪ call to action from former Senior Advisor on Water to the U.N., honorary chairperson of the Council of Canadians, chair of Washing-based Food and Water Watch, and councillor with the Hamburg-based World Future Council Maude Barlow is an activist who served as an adviser on water to the UN.

“Maude Barlow is one of our planet’s greatest water defenders.” - Naomi Klein, bestselling author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine

Whose Water Is It, Anyway? by Maude Barlow