Blue Gold : World Water Wars
In every corner of the globe, we are polluting, diverting, pumping, and wasting our limited supply of fresh water at an expediential level as population and technology grows. The rampant overdevelopment of agriculture, housing and industry increase the demands for fresh water well beyond the finite supply, resulting in the desertification of the earth.

As Maude Barlow proclaims, "This is our revolution, this is our war".

F.L.O.W - For Love of Water
Irena Salina's award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis.

Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the water grab, while begging the question 'CAN ANYONE REALLY OWN WATER?'

 

• Mass Indigenous Protest In Defense of Water Caps Week of Mobilizations in Ecuador, Upside Down World, November 20, 2008
• Deripaska mill that polluted Lake Baikal closes, The Guardian (UK), November 12, 2008
• One dead, five hurt after Mali authorities open fire on protest, AFP, November 10, 2008
• Wells water moratorium passes - Food & Water Watch, November 6, 2008
• Akron Residents Won’t Let Government Abdicate Responsibility For Sewer System: Voters Reject Stinky Privatization Measure - Food & Water Watch, November 5, 2008
• Right to Water Featured in the Women, Power and Politics global online exhibition at I.M.O.W. We are pleased to announce that Right To Water was selected as one of the featured take actions in the Women, Power and Politics online exhibition at the International Museum of Women. Read the exhibition story, Water Woes: Women Fetch the World’s Water, or browse the take action directory.
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• Water for All: The Leaders of a New Revolution. A gathering of international thinkers, artists, and activists is inspiring a new revolution in the right to water and what belongs to the commons - AlterNet.org, August 20, 2008
• VICTORY! Coca-Cola Plant Shut Down in India: Community Welcomes Decision, Company Cites "Unbearable" Financial Losses - India Resource Center, August 14, 2008
• Activists in McCloud Celebrate Withdrawal of Nestle Water Bottling Contract - Food & Water Watch, August 6, 2008
• UN names pioneer as High Commissioner for human rights - Navanethem Pillay pledges to work toward the right to clean water - Radio Netherlands, July 29, 2008
• The People: 1; Nestle: 1: Activists Save Water From Corporate Control in Wells, Maine as Neighbors in Rangeley Lose Out To Extraction Site - Food & Water Watch, July 18, 2008
• Black community denied water for decades, jury says - nearly $11 million in damages awarded for denial of public water services. CNN, July 11, 2008
• Dutch court rules access to water is a human right - NIS (Netherlands), July 9, 2008
• Sanitation: A Human Rights Imperative (4-page summary) - The Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE)
• Maine Activists Win First Victory As Nestle Water Deal Vote Is Delayed - Kennebunkport & Wells Water District trustees delayed action Wednesday on a proposal to sell water to Poland Spring after protesters gathered at district offices to show their displeasure, Portland Press Herald (Maine), June 26, 2008
• Deal would limit taking of water from state - Agreement scores new, concrete protections for Michigan water resources, Detroit Free Press, June 24, 2008
• Saint John council rejects public-private partnership for water - Council wants to hear other options, CBC News, June 24, 2008
• Water Remunicipalisation Tracker
  A new website - www.remunicipalisation.org - highlights the growing trend to return failing privately managed water services to public management.
• Quebec moves to protect water - 'Collective resource'; Bill would impose royalties on big users, The Gazette June 6, 2008.
• Private Water Washed Out of Paris: Food & Water Watch Applaud's City's Plan to Take Over Water From Corporate Control - Corporate water barons are on the run everywhere. In a fitting round of justice, French water giants Veolia and Suez are getting kicked out of the their own capital city. The Paris city council announced in early June that the city’s water system would revert to 100 percent public control at the end of 2009. The aim is to keep water prices in the city stable. June 6, 2008.
• FELTON PREVAILS! - The community of Felton, California today prevailed in its six-year fight to acquire its water system from California-American Water, a subsidiary of the German multinational corporation RWE, May 30, 2008.
• Oscilloscope Pictures Announces First Acquisition: Irena Salina’s ‘FLOW: For Love Of Water’ - A prescient documentary about the looming worldwide water shortage, Oscilloscope Pictures, May 20, 2008.
• Stop buying bottled water, Nickels urges Seattleites - “When Mayor Greg Nickels drives in his car, he carries a plastic container filled with tap water. He says it's his small effort to save the environment. This morning, Nickels launched a bigger mission: To try to get Seattleites to stop buying bottled water.” The Seattle Times, May 7, 2008.
• Right to Water - South Africa - South African Court issues landmark ruling against pre-paid water meters in Johannesburg township, requires provision of 50 litres of water free per person per day, COHRE, May 1, 2008. UPDATE: Jo'burg to appeal water-meter ruling, Mail & Guardian, May 14, 2008
• Water Voices from Around The World - featuring Maude Barlow - to be honored as the book "Most Likely to Save the Planet."
• Council of Canadians 2008 General Water Presentation (PDF or Powerpoint) - Spring 2008
• Letter to Canada's federal Liberal Party by the Council of Canadians and the Geneva-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) correcting the Party on statements made to the media about the consequences of Canada endorsing the right to water. April 8, 2008
• Maude Barlow debates Water as a Human Right, CBC The Current: Part 2, March 24, 2008
• Ottawa turns off tap on right to water, Maude Barlow, Toronto Star, March 22, 2008
• Human rights: the Netherlands officially recognises the right to water, March 20, 2008
• The religious leader of the world’s 1.1 billion Roman Catholics says water is an “inalienable right” and the Church emphasizes that water by its very nature "cannot be treated as just another commodity among many." The Catholic News Service, September 7, 2007.