Maude Barlow, author of Blue Covenant, will be discussing her very important new book at an upcoming event in Brisbane.

Date: Tuesday 2 September

Time: 6:00pm for 6:30pm start

Venue: Irish Club, 175 Elizabeth Street, Brisbane

Tickets: $15 / $12 concession, bulk purchase (6 or more) $10 each

Bookings: Through Brisbane’s Better Bookshops: Avid Reader: 193 Boundary St, West End, Ph: 07 3846 3422 or books{at}avidreader.com.au

Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water by Maude Barlow

Scientists call them “hot stains” – the parts of the earth running out of clean, drinkable water. They now include northern China, large areas of Asia and Africa, the Middle East, Australia, the Midwestern United States, and sections of South America and Mexico. How did the world’s most vital natural resource become so imperiled? And what must we do to pull back from the brink?

In the tradition of such classics as Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth, Blue Covenant addresses an environmental crisis that – together with global warming – poses one of the gravest threats to our survival.

World-renowned activist and author Maude Barlow has been at the forefront of international water politics, and in this timely and important book she discusses the state of the world’s water, how water companies are reaping vast profits from declining supplies, and how ordinary people from around the world have banded together to reclaim the public’s right to clean water.