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WINGS #46-10 The Human Right to Water
Winning some battles, still losing the war.
Uploaded: 14 Mar, 2011
Recording Date: 14 Mar, 2011
Recording Location: Berkeley, California, USA; Vancouver BC Canada
Logsheet: none
Language: English
Topical for: Timeless
Status: Complete, Ready to Air
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WINGS #46-10 World Water Week by Sue Supriano and Frieda Werden is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at suesupriano.org.
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Program Title: WINGS #46-10 The Human Right to Water
Description: World Water Day is March 22. Maude Barlow, author of Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water explains the growing shortages of usable fresh water in the world and how a few corporations are being helped by the World Bank and IMF to control what's left. Struggles of desperate people have had some success against the privatizers, but our practices towards water must change.
Host(s): Sue Supriano, Frieda Werden
Featured Speakers/Guests: Maude Barlow, head of Council of Canadians, and the UN's first Senior Advisor on Water Issues (2008 to 2009).
Credits: Interview by Sue Supriano (2003) first aired in Steppin' Out of Babylon; updates for WINGS 2011 by Frieda Werden.
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Weekly Program
Environment > Climate Change Politics Science and Technology Health Society and Culture Environment > Pollution |
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