BOOK: BARLOW: Blue Future: Protecting Water for People an

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Blue Future: Protecting Water for People and the Planet Forever.

by Maude Barlow

EVENT: book launch of her new book, Blue Future: Protecting Water for People and the Planet Forever

When: Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Hours: 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Where: U of A Telus Centre Room 150 [111 Street 87 Ave NW], Edmonton
Price: Free!
Contact: 780-429-4500
Web site url:
[ www.facebook.com/events/650854798272681/ ]

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Join the Council of Canadians for an evening with Maude Barlow at the Edmonton book launch of her new book, Blue Future: Protecting Water for People and the Planet Forever.

Blue Future is a powerful, penetrating, and timely look at the global water crisis — and what we can do to prevent it. The final installment in Barlow’s Blue trilogy, Blue Future includes inspiring stories of struggle and resistance from marginalized communities, as well as examples of government policies that work for people and the planet. A call to action to create a water-secure world, it is, in the end, a book of hope.

Copies of Blue Future will be available for purchase, and Maude will be signing books after her presentation.

For more information on Blue Future, visit
[ http://www.houseofanansi.com/Blue-Future-P2172.aspx ]

This event is co-sponsored by Council of Canadians U of A Chapter, Council of Canadians Edmonton Chapter, Parkland Institute and the Our Water Is Not For Sale Network.

About the Author:

Maude Barlow is the author of sixteen books, including the international bestsellers Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Threat of the World’s Water (co-written with Tony Clarke) and Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water. She is currently the National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians. She served as Senior Advisor on Water to the 63rd President of the United Nations General Assembly and was a leader in the campaign to have water recognized as a human right by the UN. She lives in Ottawa, Ontario.

For more information, email aloney@canadians.org

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Click here to download the poster (PDF):
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Blue Future: Protecting Water for People and the Planet Forever

[ http://www.houseofanansi.com/Blue-Future-P2172.aspx ]

By author: Maude Barlow
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CAD $24.95
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The final book in Maude Barlow’s Blue trilogy, Blue Future is a powerful, penetrating, and timely look at the global water crisis — and what we can do to prevent it.

The global water crisis has dramatically deepened. The stage is being set for drought on an unprecedented scale, mass starvation, and the migration of millions of refugees leaving parched lands in search of water. The story does not need to end in tragedy.

In Blue Future, international bestselling author Maude Barlow offers solutions to the global water crisis based on four simple principles. Principle One: Water Is a Human Right chronicles the long fight to have the human right to water recognized and the powerful players still impeding this progress. Principle Two: Water Is a Common Heritage and Public Trust argues that water must not become a commodity to be bought and sold on the open market. Principle Three: Water Has Rights Too makes the case for the protection of source water and the need to make our human laws compatible with those of nature. Principle Four: Water Will Teach Us How to Live Together urges us to come together around a common threat — the end of water — and find a way to live more lightly on this planet.

The final instalment in Barlow’s Blue trilogy, Blue Future includes inspiring stories of struggle and resistance from marginalized communities, as well as examples of government policies that work for people and the planet. A call to action to create a water-secure world, it is, in the end, a book of hope.