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(April 30, 2009, Aguanomics)
I hope that Maude Barlow tells her fellow citizens THIS fact: Cheap water leads to more demand (Canadians have the highest per capita consumption of water in the world.)
Bottom Line: We cannot manage water if we don’t know how much we use or how much that use costs (economically or environmentally).
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(April 2, 2009, Jeff Conant, AlterNet)
As the Fifth World Water Forum ended recently in Istanbul, a number of stories came out, each of which might have emerged as the main water story of the week. But in fact, to see the most important story of the Forum you have to look beyond the Forum itself. [...]

(March 20, 2009, Citizen News Service)
The President of the United Nations General Assembly has told delegates at the 5th World Water Forum (WWF) in Istanbul, Turkey, that, “those who are committed to the privatization of water, making it a commodity like oil, are denying people a human right as basic as the air we breathe.”
In [...]

(Feb. 20, 2009, WaterDrop)
According to Maude Barlow, the senior water advisor on water to the president of the United Nations General Assembly, Australia, Europe, India, China and Africa’s lakes are quickly being replaced by deserts. She also states that water systems in North and Central America are continuously being degraded to the point of collapse.
Barlow [...]

(Feb. 20, 2009, Aquadoc, WaterWired)
I found this interview with Maude Barlow on EurActiv.com (thanks to WaterSISWEB). I was ready to have my head explode but was quite (pleasantly?) surprised; she did not seem misinformed about some basic water facts.  No “New Mexico has a 10-year supply of water left.”
There was one thread I found especially puzzling:
We need [...]

(Feb. 13, 2009, Max Deveson, BBC News)
The arid states of America’s south-west have been getting drier in recent years.
Since 2000, the Colorado River – which provides water for seven US states in the region – has carried less water than at any time in recorded history.
And while the drought is worsening, the demand for water [...]

(Jan., 2009, OnTheCommons.org)

Download a New Report on Water Commons Principles
“Our Water Commons, Towards a New Freshwater Narrative” by Maude Barlow
In every corner of the globe, communities (not just human, but flora and fauna as well) are in a pitched battle against thirst. Thank you for your interest in learning more about the principles of the [...]

(Image Courtesy of CaliforniaGreenSolutions)
Is the water crisis a resource crisis or a service crisis? No matter what anyone says, each seems to fall on one side or the other. Frank R. Rijsberman claims the water crisis is both, but he seems to lean more toward a service crisis.
And opinions vary so widely on related topics, [...]

(Jan. 22, 2009, AlterNet)
Maude Barlow and Ge Yun, two leaders in the global struggle for fresh water, warm about the affects of climate change.
We profile two women activists taking on the global water crisis. Canadian Maude Barlow is a well known leader in the global struggle for water justice. Ge Yun from China is [...]

(Jan. 18, 2009 WaterBlogged.Info)
In a December 28, 2008 posting, The Human Right to Water: The Time Has Come, Michael Campana of WaterWired has expressed a change of heart about the right to water. At the risk of misconstruing the story of his conversion, its primarily geo-political and pragmatic concerns that dictate the need for a [...]