AN INTERVIEW WITH MAUDE BARLOW

In an interview, author Maude Barlow shared her opinions and personal experiences from the frontlines of the international grassroots water movement. Barlow said she was first interested in water from the perspective of security and sovereignty of Canada's water. There are two groups that are hit harder than others. One is indigenous peoples because in many, many communities around the world, it is the water on indigenous land that is being taken, such as in Mexico City. And the other group is women. Women provide water in most of the communities in the Global South. Corporations aren't going to go there on their own, generally. It has to be citizens and their governments speaking for them with rule of law. Energy and water and their impact on agriculture should all be talked about in the same package. The human right to water is deeply connected to the ecological ability of the earth to provide it.