Boiling point : government neglect, corporate abuse, and Canada's water crisis / Maude Barlow.
2016
KC219.5 .B62 2016
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Boiling point : government neglect, corporate abuse, and Canada's water crisis / Maude Barlow.
Imprint
Toronto : ECW Press, 2016.
Description
xvi, 293 pages ; 22 cm
Formatted Contents Note
A history of neglect and abuse
A federal government missing in action
First Nations on the front line
Where oil meets water
Hewers of wood, drawers of water
Agribusiness imperils water
Water for sale
The corporate free trade threat to Canada's water
A blue and just Canada is possible.
A federal government missing in action
First Nations on the front line
Where oil meets water
Hewers of wood, drawers of water
Agribusiness imperils water
Water for sale
The corporate free trade threat to Canada's water
A blue and just Canada is possible.
Summary
"We bask in the idea that Canada holds 20% of the world's fresh water, confident that we will always have enough. Water crises face other countries, but not ours. We could not be more wrong. Maude Barlow lays bare the issues facing Canada's water reserves, from long-outdated water laws to our unmapped and unprotected groundwater reserves, from agricultural pollution to industrial-waste dumping, from boil-water advisories to the effects of de-forestation and climate change. This will be the defining issue of the coming decade, and most of us have no idea that it is on our very own doorstep."--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Location
RM135
Call Number
KC219.5 .B62 2016
Language
English
ISBN
9781770413559 paperback
1770413553 paperback
1770413553 paperback
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