Authors: 
Maude Barlow

In this groundbreaking book Maude Barlow —head of the Council of Canadians, Canada’s largest public advocacy organization—and Tony Clarke—an authority on the impact of global corporations— highlight the issues at stake with the privatization of water. They vividly describe what happens when water is treated like a commodity that is governed by the demands of profit-seeking. Many people may have heard about citizen protests in Bolivia that took municipal water services out of private hands and reclaimed them as a public commons, but not be aware that successful campaigns in Toronto, Atlanta, Vancouver, New Orleans and Chattanooga turned back or limited water privatization plans.