GLIN==> New book: "The Battle Against Corporate Theft of the World's Wat

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    "The wars of the next century will be about water."--The World Bank

                       Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke
                                 Blue Gold
          The Battle Against Corporate Theft of the World's Water

                            $29.95    280 pages
                            ISBN-0-7737-3306-x

                      Publication Date: March 9, 2002

Increasingly, transnational corporations are plotting to control the
world's dwindling water supply. The major bottled-water producers--Perrier,
Evian, Naya and now Coca Cola and PepsiCo--are part of one of the fastest
growing and least regulated industries, buying up fresh-water rights and
drying up crucial supplies. Governments have colluded with the corporate
sector to cash in on the "blue gold" and cannot draft effective legislation
to ensure that water is preserved and protected for future generations. The
problem is especially dire now that water has been commodified by both the
North America Free Trade Agreement and the World Trade Organization. Maude
Barlow and Tony Clarke, two of the most active opponents to this trend,
show how the corporate giants act in their own interest and how, contrary
to received wisdom, water only flows uphill to the wealthy, who can afford
it.

The consumption of water doubles every 20 years--more than twice the rate of
the increase in human population. Blue Gold captures in striking detail the
forces behind the increasing depletion of the world's fresh water, and the
human and ecological impacts.

Maude Barlow is the national volunteer chairperson for the Council of
Canadians. She is a director of the International Forum on Globalization
and the founder of the Blue Planet Project, a global citizens' movement to
protect water.

GLIN==> New book: "The Battle Against Corporate Theft of the World's Water"