“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 and the Institute for Policy Studies are proud to present:

An evening with renowned international water activist Maude Barlow who will discuss her new book,  

Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water

When

Friday, February 29
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

Where 

Busboys and Poets (Langston Room)
2021 14th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009

Introduced by Food & Water Watch Executive Director Wenonah Hauter and Institute for Policy Studies Director John Cavanagh, author Maude Barlow will sign and discuss Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water.

Get the book
Order the book from New Press or Barnes & Noble Or buy it at the event!

In their international bestseller Blue Gold, Maude Barlow and co–author Tony Clarke exposed how a handful of corporations are gaining ownership and control of the earth's dwindling water supply, depriving millions of people around the world of access to this most basic of resources and accelerating the onset of a global water crisis. Blue Covenant, the sequel to Blue Gold, describes a powerful response to this trend: the emergence of an international, grassroots–led movement to have water declared a basic human right, something that can't be bought or sold for profit.

Directions

Busboys and Poets is located at the corner of 14th and V Street NW –– 2 blocks from the Metro Green Line –– U Street Cardozo stop.

Parking is available after 5PM at the Reeves Government Center for $7 –– the entrance to the parking is on U Street between 14th and 15th. Street parking is also available –– best times for street parking is early in the evening on 14th Street or V Street –– it is free after 6:30PM and on Weekends all day.