“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."

“Desalination plants will ring the world’s oceans, many of them run by nuclear power; corporate nanotechnology will clean up sewage water and sell it to private utilities who will sell it back to us at a huge profit; the rich will drink only bottled water found in the few remote parts of the world left or sucked from the clouds by machines, while the poor die in increasing numbers. This is not science fiction. This is where the world is headed unless we change course.”

— Maude Barlow

Food & Water Watch is proud to present:

An evening with renowned international water activist Maude Barlow, discussing her book, Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water –– see individual pages for details

• February 11 — San Diego, CA
  Venue: George L. Stevens Senior Community Center-Assembly Room, 6:30–8:30 p.m.
  Speakers: Maude Barlow, Joan Raymond, Wenonah Hauter, Donald Cohen
• February 12 — Santa Barbara, CA
  Venue: RM #1302, Marine Sciences Building, University of California (UCSB), 2:30-4:00 p.m.
• February 14 — Los Angeles, CA
  Venue: Santa Monica Public Library, 7:00–9:00 p.m.
  www.smpl.org

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• February 18 — San Francisco/Marin County, CA
  Venue: Book Passage, 7:00 p.m.
  Corte Madera, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.
  www.bookpassage.com
• February 19 — Chico, CA
  Venue: Chico Grange Hall, 6:30–8:30 p.m.
• February 20 — Berkeley, CA
  Venue: First Congregational Church of Berkeley, 7:30 p.m.
• February 21 — Monterey, CA
  Venue: Monterey Senior Centre, 6:30 p.m.
  280 Dickman Avenue
  www.monterey.org
• February 27 — Poughkeepsie, NY
  Venue: Vassar College, time TBC
  124 Raymond Avenue
  www.vassar.edu
• February 28 — Washington, DC
  Venue: American University, 7:00 p.m.
  4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
  www.american.edu
  
• February 29 — Washington, DC
  Venue: Busboys & Poets, 6:30–8:30 p.m.
  2021 14th Street
  www.busboysandpoets.com
• March 2 — Boston, MA
  Venue: First Church in Jamaica Plain, 7:00–9:00 p.m.
  6 Eliot Street
  http://www.firstchurchjp.org
  
• March 3 — Northampton, MA
  Venue: Smith College, time TBC
  www.smith.edu
• March 12 — New York City, NY
  Venue: Columbia University, 7:00 pm–9:00 pm
  116th  St. West Side
  www.columbia.edu
• March 31 — Portsmouth, NH
  Venue: Portsmouth Public Library, 7:00 p.m.
  175 Parrott Avenue
  
• April 14 — Seattle, WA
  Venue: Book store TBC
• April 15 — Portland, OR
  Venue: First Unitarian Church, time TBC
  1011 SW 12th Avenue
  www.firstunitarianportland.org

More venue locations TBA.

Maude Barlow is the national chairperson of The Council of Canadians, Canada's largest citizens' advocacy organization with members and chapters across Canada. Maude Barlow is also the co-founder of the Blue Planet Project which works to stop commodification of the world's water. She serves on the boards of the International Forum on Globalization and Food and Water Watch and is a councilor with the Hamburg-based World Future Council. In addition to being nominated for the "1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005" she is a recipient of the "2005/2006 Lannan Cultural Freedom Fellowship" and the "2005 Right Livelihood Award". She is the best selling author or co-author of 16 books, including Too Close For Comfort: Canada's Future Within Fortress North America; and Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop Corporate Theft of the World's Water (with Tony Clarke), now published in 47 countries.