Whose Water Is It, Anyway? Taking Water Protection into Public Hands
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“Maude Barlow is one of our planet’s greatest water defenders.” ― Naomi Klein, bestselling author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine
“This book is a blueprint for communities around the world to take back that responsibility and maintain water as a human right.” ― David Suzuki
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1 author picked Whose Water Is It, Anyway? Taking Water Protection into Public Hands as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
In Whose Water Is It Anyway, Maude Barlow, one of the world’s foremost activists in the struggle against water grabbing, provides an account of the rich history of resistance against profit-making with water.
Importantly, the book is not just about the history of resistance. By introducing the Blue Communities project it provides people with an opportunity of engaging in concrete grassroots action, accomplishing something in the here and now.
To become a Blue Community, a municipality must recognize water as a human right, run water and sanitation services as a public company and ban or phase out bottled water…
From Andreas' list on struggles against water grabbing.
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