“Maude Barlow is one of our planet’s greatest water defenders.” — Naomi Klein, bestselling author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine
This is a must-read.” — Jane Fonda on Whose Water Is It Anyway?
Author of 19 books, Barlow served as the Senior Advisor on Water to the 63rd President of the UN General Assembly (2008–2009) and led a campaign to have water recognized as a human right by the U.N. Her book on Canadian water policy, Boiling Point, made the Globe and Mail bestseller list, and her acclaimed Blue trilogy has surpassed 100K sales internationally.
Barlow chairs the board of Washington-based Food & Water Watch and Ottawa-based Blue Planet Project. She co-founded the Council of Canadians and serves on the Board of Advisors of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature and is a councillor with the Hamburg-based World Future Council.
Barlow, a revered activist and bestselling author, shares her strategies for keeping hope alive in difficult times. She is a practiced and engaging speaker and available for events.
Whose Water is it, Anyway? was published by Verlag Antje Kunstmann in Germany and Éditions Écosociété in Quebec and France.

Audience

Readers of Maude Barlow’s earlier work and her social platform following (Twitter: 14k followers) and those interested in the world of the Council of Canadians (Twitter: 28.2k followers)
Readers of ,Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit and No is Not Enough by Naomi Klein
Fans of Jane Fonda and Fire Drill Fridays
Activists
Anyone with an interest in conversation, including environmental organizations and policy makers
Those following hot political issues, such as pipeline expansion and global carbon commitments
Readers of Naomi Klein, Seth Klein, David Boyd and David Suzuki
Supporters of and donors to Blue Dot and other environmental organizations
Women, 20+