Maude Barlow, President Council of Canadians and  International Water Activist, is WAC's International Patron

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The Community Committee behind the Community Water Summit organised a visit by her to Adelaide on 4 April 2009. This included visits to the Lower Lakes and water hotspots around Adelaide (Watershed Salisbury, Cheltenham Park & Adelaide Desalination Plant) and the hosting of a seminar Maude Barlow in Conversation on Water at the Grainger Studio in Adelaide.

Maude Barlow is the International Patron of the Water Action Coalition and the Author of Blue Covenant - The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water and Our Right to Water: A People's Guide to Implementing the United Nations' Recognition of the Right to Water and Sanitation.

She also gave a video keynote speech to the forum Privatisation: The Cost of Water Reform? in Adelaide on 18 May 2011 (see also WAC Events). 

A recipient of Sweden's Right Livelihood Award (the "Alternative Nobel") and a Lannan Cultural Freedom Fellowship, Maude Barlow is head of the Council of Canadians, Canada's largest public advocacy organisation, and founder of the Blue Planet Project.

She is the author of sixteen books and is on the board of Food and Water Watch and the International Forum on Globalisation. She was recently appointed as the first Senior Advisor on water issues by Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, President of the 63rd session of the United Nations in 2009.

The Community Committee behind the Community Water Summit organised a visit by her to Adelaide on 4 April 2009. This included visits to the Lower Lakes and water hotspots around Adelaide (Watershed Salisbury, Cheltenham Park & Adelaide Desalination Plant) and the hosting of a seminar Maude Barlow in Conversation on Water at the Grainger Studio in Adelaide.

Alan Jones talks to Maude Barlow – the issue of water rights, Radio 2GB Wednesday 21st July 2010 (2GB MP3 Podcast  available, registration required), Colin Pitman mentioned, talks about UN Resolution to the right to water and sanitation, and water markets and privatisation. Interview resulted from an open letter from Maude Barlow, Professor Diane Bell and Ian Douglas) "Water as a Human Right"

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