Who owns the water? Trans-national giants buy up water rights for very little, and make enormous profit while putting the future supplies in danger.
Maude Barlow’s new book looks at what is happening in Canada and around the world. It’s called, “Boiling Point: government neglect, corporate abuse, and Canada’s water crisis.
Although it deals generally with the situation in Canada, it explains how and why the subjects touched upon are interconnected world-wide.
Ms Barlow ,is the National Chairperson for the Council of Canadians, a non-profit group advocating on environmental issues, public health care, fair trade issues, and healthy democracy.
In this segment she looks at water extraction by huge corporations who export it out of the watershed.
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Ms Barlow notes the top executive of the biggest water extraction company is also an advisor to the world bank, which not surprisingly has made many policy decisions promoting private control and ownership of water.
In Canada, she says we are giving water bottling companies rights to extract millions of litres of water per day from acquifers even though there has not been proper mapping and understanding of the water resources in the country.
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