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

Maude Barlow, AlterNet. July 28, 2011.

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

Maude Barlow, AlterNet. May 12, 2011.

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.

Maude Barlow: On World Water Day We Should Be Finding Ways to Make Water a Means of Peace, Not Conflict

Thalif Deen, IPS News. March 22, 2011.

Maude Barlow: "Water can teach us how to live in harmony with one another and more lightly on this earth if we have eyes to see and ears to hear."

Maude Barlow: A Healthy Environment Should Be a Human Right

Madeline Ostrander, YES! Magazine. December 5, 2010.

In most legal systems, you have a right to freedom of speech or religion, but you don't have a right to breathe clean air or drink safe water. That needs to change.

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

Maude Barlow, On the Commons. October 15, 2010.

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

Maude Barlow Addresses United Nations: Water Crisis Is the Most Urgent Ecological Crisis of Our Time

Staff, Food & Water Watch AlterNet: Water. April 22, 2009.

"This must be the priority: ecosystem protection must take precedence over commercial demands on these waters."

Fixing Our Water Crisis Can't Be Done by the Corporations that Are Exacerbating It

Jeff Conant, AlterNet. April 2, 2009.

If we learned anything from the World Water Forum it should be that the privatization model has failed and a grassroots movement is needed.

How Climate Change Is Threatening Our Drinking Water

National Radio ProjectJanuary 22, 2009.

Maude Barlow and Ge Yun, two leaders in the global struggle for fresh water, warm about the affects of climate change.

UN Takes on the Most Important Human Rights Issue: Water

Tara Lohan, AlterNet AlterNet: Water. December 16, 2008.

Help make history by signing Article 31 to make clean water a human right for all.

Top UN Leader Calls for Creation of the Right to Water

Food & Water WatchDecember 11, 2008.

On the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights there are strong calls to establish the right to water.

The Corporate Threat to Water and the Water Justice Movement's Fight to Protect it

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. March 2, 2008.

An interview with international water guru Maude Barlow and clips from the new documentary Flow: For Love of Water.

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

Maude Barlow, Movement Vision Lab. February 21, 2008.

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

Maude Barlow: The Growing Battle for the Right to Water

Tara Lohan, AlterNet. February 14, 2008.

Maude Barlow's new book about the water crisis is a call to arms to protect a fundamental human right.