Berlin Report by Anil Naidoo of the Blue Planet Project: International Expert Seminar on the Human Right to Water. Berlin, Germany, June 4-6, 2007

Preliminary Submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council RE: Decision 2/104: Human Rights and Access to Water. By Stephen Shrybman, the Council of Canadians, Blue Planet Project, April 15, 2007.

Dispatches From the Global Water War, Anil Naidoo, Canadian Perspectives, Spring 2007

Read Maude Barlow's report from the World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya (Jan. 2007)

Water Water Everywhere
Tony Clarke and Maude Barlow. The Struggle for Latin America's water.

Thirst for Control
Steven Shrybman, January 2002. The impact of a new generation of international trade agreements on public policy and law concerning water.

Water for People and Nature - The Conference Report. An international forum on conservation and human rights, July 5-8, 2001

Resources: Books & Reports

OUR RIGHT TO WATER: A People’s Guide to Implementing the United Nations’ Recognition of the Right to Water and Sanitation

By Maude Barlow, June 2011
The report finds that Canada is legally bound to respect the UN vote, and therefore to address the pressing issue of access to water and sanitation in First Nations communities.

The Right to Water: Politics, Governance and Social Struggles

Edited by Farhana Sultana and Alex Loftus
This book elucidates how universal calls for rights articulate with local historical geographical contexts, governance, politics and social struggles, thereby highlighting the challenges and the possibilities that exist.

With a foreward by Maude Barlow.

A Review of Private Sector Influence on Water Policies and Programmes at the United Nations
by Julie Larsen

This detailed report about the role of the private water sector at the UN serves to inform the public in the search for a more just and sustainable water future.

Conflicts Over Water in Chile: Between Human Rights and Market Rules, edited by Sara Larrain and Colombina Schaeffer of the Chilean non-governmental organization, Chile Sustentable.

In the report’s foreward, Council of Canadians chairperson Maude Barlow writes, “Chile has gone farther than any other country in the world in commodifiying water and creating a market economy based on private water rights..."

Our Great Lakes Commons: A People's Plan to Protect the Great Lakes Forever
by Maude Barlow

This paper is intended to serve as a background, a call to understanding and a call to action on an exciting new proposal to designate the Great Lakes and its tributary waters as a lived Commons, to be shared, protected, carefully managed and enjoyed by all who live around them.

All That We Share - A Field Guide to the Commons
by Jay Walljasper

All That We Share: A Field Guide to the Commons is a wake-up call that will inspire you to see the world in a new way. As soon as you realize that some things belong to everyone—water, for instance, or the Internet or human knowledge— you become a commoner...

Our Water Commons - Toward a new freshwater narrative
by Maude Barlow

Our Water Commons is part of the ongoing work to bring together key activists, writers and thinkers to address the global water crisis by naming and reclaiming the freshwater commons.

Local Control and Management of Our Water Commons: Stories of Rising to the Challenge
Lead author: Dr. Adam Davidson-Harden, Assistant Professor, Global Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University

Executive Summary

Losing Paradise: The Water Crisis in the Mediterranean
Edited by Gail Holst-Warhaft and Tammo Steenhuis

Taking a uniquely interdisciplinary view of the Eastern Mediterranean region's water problems, this book considers some of the technical and regulatory solutions being proposed or implemented to solve the difficulties of diminished or polluted water supplies.

Written in Water: A Message for the Future
Edited by Irena Salina

Written in Water: A Message for the Future comprises a collection of essays authored by heroes and leaders in the field of water solutions and innovations—a broad range of people from varied disciplines who have contributed their hearts and minds to bringing awareness to and conserving Earth's freshwater supply.

Water Consciousness
edited by Tara Lohan

A solution-focused guide to our greatest environmental crisis. Includes essays from Bill McKibben, Vandana Shiva, Maude Barlow, Tony Clarke, and others.

Blue Covenant - The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water
by Maude Barlow

Also available in French, Arabic, Japanese, Portuguese, Korean, Greek, Turkish, Spanish

“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."

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

Fresh water is quickly becoming big business, and a preserve of the wealthy. The world's most fundamental and indispensable resource -- water -- is fast disappearing. A global shortage of water is looming as the most threatening ecological, economic, and political crisis of the21st century.

Lake Naivasha: Withering Under the Assault of International Flower Vendors
by Food and Water Watch and The Council of Canadians

Unless they are stopped, the flower agribusiness operations on Lake Naivasha will destroy the lake itself, the community dependent upon it, and the entire ecosystem of the watershed. It is time for consumers in Europe to understand that every time they buy a rose grown on Lake Naivasha, they help destroy - perhaps forever - the exquisite place where Isaak Dinesen’s Out of Africa was filmed

Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit
by Vandana Shiva

South End Press (2002)
Paperback; 158 pages
978-0896086500