About the Author

Maude Barlow is the international bestselling author of 19 books, including the bestselling Blue Water trilogy. She is the honorary chair of the Council of Canadians and of the Washington-based Food and Water Watch. She is on the executive committee of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature and a councillor with the World Future Council. In 2008–09, she served as senior advisor on water to the 63rd president of the UN General Assembly and was a leader in the campaign to have water recognized as a human right by the UN. In 2005, she won the prestigious Right Livelihood Award, the “alternative Nobel.” She lives in Ottawa, Ontario.

Reviews

"Whose Water Is It, Anyway? is in fact a bouncy book of hope ... Amid all the frustrations and disappointments of the global environmental crisis, Barlow seems to have hit upon a really good idea ... What Barlow is teaching us with this punchy little book is that, yes, there can be hope." -- the Globe and Mail

"In Whose Water Is It, Anyway?: Taking Water Protection into Public Hands, Barlow passionately describes the history of how water, on a global scale, has been systematically transformed from a public good to an economic commodity -- right under our noses ... Fortunately, Barlow provides a blueprint for the work and pathway for hope." -- Winnipeg Free Press