Many African countries already have a water crisis. They predict water crises will affect seven billion people by 2050, when world population hits 10 billion. Consider that a United Nations science panel estimates that by 2030 the global demand for water will exceed supply by 40%. “The water crisis is a few years behind the climate crisis in people’s minds,” she told Decafnation in an interview at the Union Bay home of Alice de Wolff, a member of the Council of Canadians board.īut it is real. “We are blessed with water in Canada, but that doesn’t mean we can be careless with it.” “We think it will always be here,” she said. And she has worked worldwide to convince governments and the public to recognize the human right to clean water, to keep drinking water and wastewater systems under public control and to stop using bottled water. Water crisis? That’s hard to believe on the soggy west coast, but it’s true.īarlow has devoted the last decade, and most of her 19 books, to dispelling the Canadian myth that we have an abundance of water. Maude Barlow’s October 22 presentation at the K’omoks Band Hall, in Courtenay, was not just another stop on the tour to promote her new book, Whose Water Is It, Anyway? The co-founder of the Council of Canadians and the Blue Planet Project is on a mission to sound the alarm about a global water crisis.
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