BLUE COVENANT, The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle, by Maude Barlow (1st Ed. SIGNED)

Author: Maude Barlow. Published by McClelland & Stewart Ltd., Toronto, ON, 2004. 1st Edition. Signed & Dedicated by Author. Printed in Canada. Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book. Size: 8.5 x 5.5 inch, 234 pages.

In a book hailed by Publishers Weekly as a “passionate plea for access to water activism,” BLUE COVENANT addresses an environmental crisis that—together with global warming—poses one of the gravest threats to our survival.

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