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Maude Barlow
National Chairperson, The Council of Canadians
Maude Barlow is the National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians and Senior Advisor on Water to the President of the United Nations General Assembly. She also chairs the board of Washington-based Food and Water Watch and is a Councillor with the Hamburg-based World Future Council. Maude is the recipient of seven honorary doctorates as well as many awards, including the 2005 Right Livelihood Award (known as the “Alternative Nobel”), and the 2008 Canadian Environment Award. She is also the best selling author or co-author of 16 books, including the recently released Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and The Coming Battle for the Right to Water.
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In the future, there will be wars over water. In fact, wars are already being fought over water, as we witnessed in Darfur.
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Barlow describes her Blue Covenant.
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Governments cede control of their water because of acts like NAFTA and the WTO, says Barlow.
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There needs to be a political will to enforce laws like the Clean Water Act, Barlow says.
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We already have thousands and thousands of water refugees, Barlow says, and it may get worse.
