- Blue Betrayal
The Harper government's assault on Canada's freshwater
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Canadians have long taken their water heritage for granted. This is largely due to the myth that there is an abundance of water. While it is true that compared to many other parts of the world Canada is blessed with water, it is false that there is water to waste or sell.
- Blue Gold
The battle against corporate theft of the world's water
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
International tensions around water are rising in many of the world's most volatile regions.This book exposes the enormity of the problem, the dangers of the proposed solution and the alternative, which is to recognize access to water as a fundamental human right, not dependent on ability to pay.
- Blue Gold: World Water Wars
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2008
A documentary, based on the book Blue Gold, by Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, which examines environmental and political implications of the planet's dwindling water supply, and posits that wars in the future will be fought over water. The film also highlights some success stories of water activists around the world and makes a strong case for community action.
- Canada After Harper
His Ideology-fuelled Attack on Canadian Society and Values, and How We Can Resist and Create the Country We Want
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
Essays documenting the breadth and depth of the Harper government's attack on institutions, policies, and programs that embody values and principles shared by most Canadians: education, health care, women's rights, science and research, the economy, labour unions, water and natural resources, and Aboriginal affairs.
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- Connexions Library: Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, Water Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on water, rivers, streams, wetlands, lakes, rivers, oceans, marine life.
- Drinking Water Conference Takes Centre Stage in Ottawa, May 5-8
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Ontario water industry professionals meet in Ottawa, May 5-8
- FLOW
For Love of Water
Resource Type: Film
Published: 2008
A critical expose of the privatization of water infrastructure. 'Flow' confronts the disturbing reality that our crucial resource is dwindling and greed just may be the cause.
- FLOW: For Love of Water
Resource Type: Film/Video
- GE's PCBs: Who Will Tell the Fish
Against The Current vol. 99
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2002
Against prevailing scientific wisdom, an August 2001 General Electric press release declares that "there is no credible evidence that PCB exposure causes disease in people."
- HTO
Toronto's Water from Lake Iroquois to Lost Rivers to Low-flow Toilets
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
A collection of essays on Toronto's water and watershed, ranging from burying streams to storm sewers and rainwater harvesting.
- Privatizing Water, The New World War
Against The Current vol. 108
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2004
Capitalism and corporate science have colluded to bring us the latest, most insidious crisis. According to the United Nations research, 1.3 billion people in the world today lack access to clean water and 2.5 billion do not have adequate sewage and sanitation. The human suffering and environmental damage that those figures represent is unspeakable.
- Rafferty-Alameda: The American Connection
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1991
The Rafferty, along with the Oldman River Dam under construction in Alberta, only make sense as part of a water diversion to the United States. Because 90 per cent of Canadians, according to federal government study, are opposed to the export of Canadian water, this aspect of the project has not been made public and the Devine government is using the front of a purely localized development to "save" precious water for the dry prairies.
- Take Me to the Source
In Search of Water
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2009
Water is ubiquitous. This book exlores its structure, its forms, its flow, and the policies that govern its use. The architecture and wars that water management has spawned are discussed.
- Toolkit for a New Canada
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
A pamphlet providing a snapshot of what the contributors, brought together by Canadian Dimension magazine, believe are the big issues facing Canada in the first decade of the 21st century. The articles are all short and offer concrete suggestions for the way forward.
- Vanishing Lifeline
Water is essential, but Earth's growing population are draining supplies and wells are running dry.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Water supplies in the Middle East and north Africa are built on an environmental Ponzi scheme. The UN estimates that by 2025 two thirds of the world's population will face water shortages. Aid for the water shortage crises has drastically declined in the past decade as is seen as "unsexy" causes.
- We Must Support Detroit's Fight for the Right to Water
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Detroit is shutting off water to 40% of residents to prepare the water system for a corporate buyout. Residents are organizing to resist the water shuttoffs, anti-democratic rule and the demands of Wall Street - but they need our help.
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