Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water

US: The New Press, 2009. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. In a book hailed by Publishers Weekly as a "passionate plea for access to w ater activism," Blue Covenant addresses an environmental crisis that-togeth er with global warming-poses one of the gravest threats to our survival. How did the world's most vital resource become imperiled? And what must we do to pull back from the brink? In "stark and nearly devastating prose" (Bo oklist), world-renowned activist and bestselling author Maude Barlow-who is featured in the acclaimed documentary Flow-discusses the state of the worl d's water. Barlow examines how water companies are reaping vast profits fro m declining supplies, and how ordinary people from around the world have ba nded together to reclaim the public's right to clean water, creating a gras sroots global water justice movement. While tracing the history of internat ional battles for the right to water, she documents the life-and-death stak es involved in the fight and lays out the actions that we as global citizen s must take to secure a water-just world for all. As people around the world turn their attention to the effects of climate change, Blue Covenant is a timely and important reminder for us to take heed of the global water crisis's impact on humans and the natural world.