Maude Barlow is the National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians and chairs the board of Washington-based Food and Water Watch. She is a board member of the San Francisco-based International Forum on Globalization and a Councillor with the Hamburg-based World Future Council.
Barlow is the recipient of eleven honorary doctorates as well as many awards, including the 2005 Right Livelihood Award (known as the “Alternative Nobel”), the 2005 Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Fellowship Award, the Citation of Lifetime Achievement at the 2008 Canadian Environment Awards, the 2009 Earth Day Canada Outstanding Environmental Achievement Award, the 2009 Planet in Focus Eco Hero Award, and the 2011 EarthCare Award, the highest international honor of the Sierra Club (US).
In 2008 and 2009, Barlow served as Senior Advisor on Water to the 63rd President of the United Nations General Assembly and was a leader in the campaign to have water recognized as a human right by the UN. She is also the author of dozens of reports, as well as 16 books, including the international best seller Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and The Coming Battle for the Right to Water.
Contributions to Humans & Nature:
- Democracy Itself Is the Solution to the Climate Crisis
A response to “Can democracy in crisis deal with the climate crisis?”
Noteworthy Links:
- The Blue Planet Project
Learn more about Maude Barlow’s work with the Blue Planet Project. - Blue Covenant The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water
Maude Barlow’s book addressing how the world’s most vital natural resource became so imperiled and what we must do to pull back from the brink. - Flow (For the love of water)
Watch this award-winning documentary investigation, featuring Maude Barlow, into the world water crisis.
