Who's Water Is It Anyway? Taking water protection into public hands - Maude Barlow

Maude Barlow has written a new book and I wanted to let you know she will be in Vancouver on October 23 as a guest author for the Vancouver Writers Festival. As a valued Council of Canadians supporter, I invite you to join her!

Maude’s wonderful new book, Whose Water is it Anyway? Taking water protection into public hands, explores the indisputable fact that our world’s freshwater sources are in danger. Now, more than ever, we need to make a commitment to protect water from pollution, abuse and corporate greed – and that’s where the Blue Communities Project comes in.

The book looks at the growing threats to our water sources and tells the story of how grassroots water warriors woke up to the immense pressures facing water in a warming world. The way forward includes a step-by-step guide to making your own community “blue” as part of the Blue Communities Project to help protect water now and for future generations.

Event Details
This event is being held by the Vancouver Writers Festival. Find out more and purchase tickets.
As access to natural resources becomes more fraught in the face of climate crisis, so does debate of the essential question in Maude Barlow’s new book, Whose Water Is It, Anyway? Barlow, Honorary Chairperson of the Council of Canadians, joins award-winning investigative journalist and Breaching the Peace author, Sarah Cox, and Candis Callison, professor at the UBC Graduate School of Journalism and author of How Climate Change Comes to Matter, to discuss. They will highlight how individuals and communities can affect real change in the face of threats. The panel will be moderated by Leila Harris.

Event number 24: Whose Water Is It, Anyway?
When: Wednesday, October 23 from 6:00 to 7:15 p.m.
Where: Performance Works, 1218 Cartwright Street, Vancouver
Tickets: $20

Ordinary people can effect enormous change by coming together with common passion and purpose – that is at the heart of the Blue Communities Project.

Copies of Whose Water is it, Anyway? will be available for purchase at the festival and Maude will be happy to sign one for you!

I hope you can attend – and please bring a friend!

Sincerely,


Molly Kane
Executive Director