Maude Barlow is the National Chairperson of The Council of Canadians, Canada’s largest public advocacy organization, co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, which works internationally for the right to water, and the best-selling author or co-author of sixteen books.
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Run by Co-Author of Blue Gold Tony Clarke, Polaris' Water Program aims to develop citizen capacities for education and action on water justice issues in communities. This includes issues like the privatization of water services, bulk water exports, water takings, water security and bottled water. Currently, a major focus of our work is on bottled water, through our Inside the Bottle campaign.
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Join Blue Gold cast member Wenonah Hauter's Take Back the Tap campaign! Consumers waste billions of dollars a year on billions of gallons of bottled water in large part because advertising spin has led them to believe that water in a bottle is safer or better than tap water even though as much as 40 percent of bottled water came from the tap in the first place.
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Blue Gold covers the touching story of Ryan Hreljac, who In 1998, only in grade one, learned from his teacher, Mrs Prest that people were dying because they didn't have clean water to drink. He decided that raising money for people who didn't have clean water would be a good thing. Ryan's story continues to impact young and old. Ryan's Well Foundation has built 432 Wells and supported sanitation, health and hygiene services in 15 countries around the world.
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Blue Gold: World Water Wars, presents the terrifying reality that our world is desertifying by allowing our over pumped ground water to flow into the ocean via mismanagement of our most precious resource. Dr. Michael Kravcik has the solution, the Blue Alternative Project, which, if applied globally, could save the human race.
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After being kicked out of Wisconsin by a group of retired citizens, Nestle moved on to Michigan, where Terry Swier formed the Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation (MCWC) and took Nestle to court with help of environmental attorney Jim Olsen. Blue Gold follows this story of corporate intimidation and the court decision which sets one of the most dangerous legal presidents for bulk water export dangers in the future.
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The River Alliance Dams Program is recognized nationally as a leader in river restoration through selective dam removal. We help to improve decisions regarding dams through public information and education, and by encouraging citizen involvement in these important decisions that affect our rivers and watersheds. This is the only grassroots program of its kind in the country.
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CEO is a European-based research and campaign group targeting the threats to democracy, equity, social justice and the environment posed by the economic and political power of corporations and their lobby groups.
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Virginia Setshedi is a Soweto-based anti-privatization activist and founder of the Anti-Privatization Forum in Johannesburg, a forum that provides African community organisations with information around issues of Trade, Debt, Globalisation and Privatisation and unites these communities in the fight for clean water in Africa. Blue Gold tells her story as she fights the installation of pre-paid water meters in South Africa which nobody can afford.
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Danielle Mitterand is the widow of former French President François Mitterrand. She watched her husband, the most powerful man in France at the time, struggle to make water a public right to French citizens, but the corporate powers-that-be prevented his success. She is now president of the foundation France Libertés Fondation Danielle Mitterrand. In Blue Gold : World Water Wars, Her first-hand experience of the power of the French global Water Barons in the political world provides intimate insight into the need to fight for water.
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Navdanya started as a program of the Research Foundation for science, Technology and Ecology (RFSTE), a participatory research initiative founded by world-renowned scientist and environmentalist Dr. Vandana Shiva, to provide direction and support to environmental activism. Blue Gold talks to Dr. Shiva about the topics in her book Water Wars, detailing horrifying stories of India-based terrorism and kidnappings all centered around the need for water.
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