“Imagine a world in twenty years, in which no substantive progress has been made to provide basic wastewater service in the Third World, or to force industry and industrial agriculture production to stop polluting water systems, or to curb the mass movement of water by pipeline, tanker and other diversion, which will have created huge new swaths of desert."

“Desalination plants will ring the world’s oceans, many of them run by nuclear power; corporate nanotechnology will clean up sewage water and sell it to private utilities who will sell it back to us at a huge profit; the rich will drink only bottled water found in the few remote parts of the world left or sucked from the clouds by machines, while the poor die in increasing numbers. This is not science fiction. This is where the world is headed unless we change course.”

— Maude Barlow

Food & Water Watch and the Columbia Earth Institute's Water Center are proud to present:

An evening with renowned international water activist Maude Barlow who will discuss her new book,  

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

When

Wednesday, March 12
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Where 

Columbia University Campus (116th and Broadway)
Davis Auditorium
Schapiro Center
116th Street West Side
New York City

- refreshments provided - 

Introduced by Food & Water Watch Take Back the Tap campaign organizer Annie Weinberg, author Maude Barlow will sign and discuss Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water.

Get the book
Order the book from New Press or Barnes & Noble Or buy it at the event!

In their international bestseller Blue Gold, Maude Barlow and co–author Tony Clarke exposed how a handful of corporations are gaining ownership and control of the earth's dwindling water supply, depriving millions of people around the world of access to this most basic of resources and accelerating the onset of a global water crisis. Blue Covenant, the sequel to Blue Gold, describes a powerful response to this trend: the emergence of an international, grassroots–led movement to have water declared a basic human right, something that can't be bought or sold for profit.

This is event is part of a national tour presented by Food & Water Watch. For more information, contact Erin Greefield at (202) 683-2500, news(at)fwwatch.org.