Report from Santa Fe to Discuss Global Water

This week’s guest on “Report from Santa Fe” is Maude Bar­low, a Cana­dian author and activist. She is the best-selling author and co-author of 16 books, includ­ing the inter­na­tional best sell­ers Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Cor­po­rate Theft of the World’s Water and Blue Covenant: The Global Water Cri­sis and The Com­ing Bat­tle for the Right to Water. She is the national chair­per­son of the Coun­cil of Cana­di­ans, a cit­i­zens’ advo­cacy orga­ni­za­tion. She is also the co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, which works inter­na­tion­ally for people’s right to water.

Bar­low dis­cusses recent global water events like the water scarcity riot in April 2010 in Mum­bai, India where a child was among many peo­ple shot and killed for steal­ing a drink of water. She describes her expe­ri­ence as a fea­tured speaker in Cochabamba, Bolivia, at the World People’s Con­fer­ence on Cli­mate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth. Cochabamba was the site of the first mod­ern water war in 1997. Barlow also explores BP’s plans for deep water drilling in Canada’s tur­bu­lent Beau­fort Sea in the Arctic. 

Hosted by vet­eran jour­nal­ist and inter­viewer, Lorene Mills, Report from Santa Fe brings the best con­tro­ver­sial, famous and emer­gent minds and voices of the day to a weekly audi­ence that spans the state of New Mex­ico and has served as a win­dow on what makes Santa Fe and the State of New Mex­ico truly unique.

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