FLOW: For Love of Water

Additional Resources


BOOKS

 

Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit

by Vandana Shiva

Publisher: Cambridge, MA : South End Press, ©2002.

Suzzallo/Allen Stacks - TD345 .S525 2002  

 

Thirst: Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water

by Alan Snitow; Deborah Kaufman; Michael Fox

Publisher: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, ©2007.

Suzzallo/Allen Stacks - HD1691 .S625 2007  

 

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

by Maude Barlow

Publisher: New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2008.

Bothell/CCC Stacks - HD1691 .B366 2008  

 

When the Rivers Run Dry: Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century

by Fred Pearce

Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press, ©2006.

Bothell/CCC Stacks - TC405 .P43 2006  

 

Planet Water: Investing in the World's Most Valuable Resource

by Stephen J Hoffmann

Publisher: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, ©2009.

Tacoma Stacks - HD1691 .H64 2009 

 

Bottlemania: Big Business, Local Springs, and the Battle Over America's Drinking Water

by Elizabeth Royte

Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury, 2009.

Cascade - Portland Community College Library  - 338.4 R69b 2009  

 

Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource

by Marq De Villiers

Publisher: Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin, 2001.

Tacoma Stacks - TD345 .D473 2000  

 

Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water

by Maude Barlow; Tony Clarke

Publisher: New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, ©2002.

Foster Offsite Stacks - HD1691 .B37 200

 

Water: Our Thirsty World

A Special  Issue

National Geographic April 2010


 

JOURNAL ARTICLES 

 

Privatization, the World Water Crisis, and the Social Contract

by Richardson Dilworth

Political Science & Politics, v. 40 no1 (January 2007) p. 49-54

 

The Last Drop: Confronting the global water shortage

by M. Specter

New Yorker Magazine. October 23: 61-71.

 

It's So Not Cool

by Anne Kingston

Maclean's, v. 120 no18 (May 14 2007) p. 38-41

 

Blue Covenant: The Alternative Water Future

by Maude Barlow

Monthly Review, 60, no. 3 (Jul/Aug 2008): p. 125-141

 

Just Another Commodity?

by Melissa Master

Across the Board, v. 39 no4 (July/August 2002) p. 18-24

 

Transverse Solidarity: Water, Power, and Resistance

by Ravi Raman

Review of Radical Political Economics, 42, no. 2 (2010): 251-268

 

Large-scale impacts of hydroelectric development

by D Rosenberg; F Berkes; R Bodaly; R Hecky; C Kelly; J Rudd

Environmental Reviews, 5, no. 1 (1997): 27-54

 

Privatizing water, producing scarcity: The Yorkshire drought of 1995

by Bakker K.J.

Economic Geography, v76 n1 (2000 05 13): 4-27

 

From Public Pipes to Private Hands: Water Access and Distribution in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

by David Christoffer Lier

Progress in Human Geography, 2008, 32, 2, Apr, 308-309.

 

Water quality monitoring and surveillance

by John C Rodda

Progress in Physical Geography, 4, no. 1 (198003): 48-62

 


 

THEMATIC MOVIES

 

Blue Gold: World Water Wars; Studio: PBS (DIRECT) - Sam Bozzo

This award winning documentary directed by Sam Bozzo is based on the book

BLUE GOLD: THE FIGHT TO STOP THE CORPORATE THEFT OF THE WORLD'S WATER

by Maude Barlow and Tony Clark. The film examines the problems created by the privatization and commoditization of water.

 

Tapped - Stephanie Soechtig

Is access to clean drinking water a basic human right, or a commodity that should be bought and sold like any other article of commerce?

Stephanie Soechtig's debut feature is an unflinching examination of the big business of bottled water.  

 


 

WEBSITES AND LINKS

 

http://www.flowthefilm.com/takeaction 

 

FREEFLO

FreeFlo is an online social network designed to strengthen the global water activist community,

to challenge the privatization of water, and to promote solidarity and water justice for all.

ARTICLE 31

Sign the petition to add a 31st article to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,

establishing access to clean water as a fundamental human right.

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Think Outside the Bottle

The Bottled Water Industry

Bottlemania

Love Bottle

Nubius Organics

 

CLEAN WATER

Global Water Organization

NRDC

Oxfam

International Rivers

Pacific Institute

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Milwaukee Riverkeeper

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Sierra Club

Waterkeeper Alliance

Be Water Wise

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Water Pure International

Whenever The Need

Hydraid

 

RIGHT TO WATER

Council of Canadians

Food and Water Watch

Right To Water

Water For All

Water Voices

Water1st.org

World Water Day

Defending Water For Life In Maine

Alliance For Democracy

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Center For Environmental Law & Policy

 

ROCKET FUEL

ABC-TV News Report

Organic Consumers

 

SOLUTION FUNDERS

Living Water International

Project Blue

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Global Water Fund

Green Grants

Sprite Industries Inc.

PlayPumps

1% For The Planet

Go Green Online

Do You Drink Water

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Nikken

National Environmental Education Foundation

Mocha Club

World Neighbors

 

VARIOUS

National Environmental Education Week - 'Be Water Wise'

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Urban Semillas

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Holistic Moms Network

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United Nations Association Film Festival

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