Stories by Maude Barlow

Why Governments Are on the Hook to Ensure Clean, Safe Water for Everyone

Posted on Jul 28, 2011, Source: AlterNet

The right to water and sanitation are living documents waiting to be used for transformational change around the world.

Vision: Nature Needs Rights -- Why Our Human-Centric Model Will Doom Us and the Rest of the Planet

Posted on May 12, 2011, Source: AlterNet

We have built our economic and development policies based on a human-centric model and assumed that nature would never fail to provide or that technology would save us.

We are Facing the Greatest Threat to Humanity: Only Fundamental Change Can Save Us

Posted on Oct 15, 2010, Source: On the Commons

Quite simply, human-centered governance systems are not working and we need new economic, development and environmental policies.

How Water Has Become a National Security Issue

Posted on Jun 6, 2008, Source: YES! Magazine

Water has become a key strategic security issue for the U.S. government and that has some very concerned.

Our Political Leaders Are to Blame in World Water Crisis

Posted on Apr 24, 2008, Source: The New Press

As Barlow's new book shows, the world does not lack the knowledge about how to build a water-secure future; it lacks the political will.

It's Time for the UN to Make Water a Human Right

Posted on Feb 21, 2008, Source: Movement Vision Lab

The global water crisis is evident. We need a global solution in form of a United Nations covenant on water.

The Battle for Water

Posted on Dec 9, 2003, Source: YES! Magazine

Due to increasing demand, shrinking supply and the interest of global corporations out to make a profit, water has become the 'blue gold' of the 21st century.

Water Incorporated

Posted on Mar 5, 2002, Source: Earth Island Journal

The commodification of the world's water means that who owns water and how much they are able to charge for it will become the question of the century.