In this latest program, Maude Barlow will discuss the global water crisis and the struggle for the human right to water. She will share her concerns about the “myth of abundance” here in Canada that has led us to take our water for granted, resulting in the great threat to our water heritage. Maude review the positive steps she and others are taking including her exciting project Blue Communities to protect water as a public trust and to stop bottled water. 

Maude Barlow is the former Chairperson of the Council of Canadians. She chairs the board of Washington-based Food and Water Watch, is a Councillor with the Hamburg-based World Future Council, and is the Honorary Chancellor of Brescia University. She has also served on the executive of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature.

Maude is the recipient of fourteen honorary doctorates as well as many awards, including the 2005 Right Livelihood Award (known as the “Alternative Nobel”), the 2005 Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Fellowship Award, the Citation of Lifetime Achievement at the 2008 Canadian Environment Awards, the 2009 Earth Day Canada Outstanding Environmental Achievement Award, the 2009 Planet in Focus Eco Hero Award, and the 2011 EarthCare Award, the highest international honour of the Sierra Club (US).

From 2008–2009, she served as Senior Advisor on Water to the 63rd President of the United Nations General Assembly and was a leader in the campaign to have water recognized as a human right by the UN. She is also the author of dozens of reports, as well as 19 books, including her latest, Boiling Point: Government Neglect, Corporate Abuse, and Canada’s Water Crisis; and Whose Water is it Anyway? Taking water protection into public hands.

Date: Thursday, February 18, 2021 - CANCELLED

New Date: CANCELLED

Time: CANCELLED

Cost: BY DONATION

Location: Zoom on-line. A link to the program will be sent to you when you register