Blue Covenant
The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water
Democracy Now is easily the best one hour, five day a week, news show in the English language and is broadcast to over 500 outlets in North America.Maude Barlow's latest book 'Blue Covenant' is a master work and in very many ways the scariest book ever written.
Whereas we can (have and will) live full meaningful lives without oil, gas, or any non-renewable fuel for that matter;. and whereas climate change is a slow motion train wreck, water cannot be lived without. There is nothing slow motion about the enormous problems that are already manifest in this realm.
Simon Reisman, the Mulroney appointed chief negotiator for NAFTA, spent close to a decade before this appointment working for an engineering firm looking at how to move water from Canada's north to the U.S. Those who do not believe that water can be treated as a good "thanks" to the rules of this agreement are to put it succinctly mistaken. And why would even Canada's corporations want water to be treated as a good?
Well for one, as you can learn in 'Blue Covenant', this is by far the fastest growing multi-billion dollar industry in the world. The number of billion dollar companies that already exist is boggling and a lobby force that present a formidable challenge to those interested in sensible long range environmental planning. Continue reading on the Gaianicity website and then return to post a comment
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