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Water publications

What’s new

• Our Water Commons - Toward a new freshwater narrative
• Council of Canadians 2008 General Water Presentation (PDF or Powerpoint) Spring 2008
• Yes, It’s Worth It: Anil Naidoo reflects on a year in the life of the water justice movement, Canadian Perspectives, Spring 2008
• Putting Harper on Notice: World Water Day to highlight the need for a national water policy, Canadian Perspectives, Spring 2008
• Lake Naivasha withering under the assault of international flower vendors (PDF), report by Food & Water Watch and The Council of Canadians, February 2008

Brochures and presentations

• ACT for Canada's Water: Canada needs a National Water Policy, PDF brochure including a tear-away card to send to the Prime Minister. February 2007
• Declaration on the Right to Water (PDF)
  For teachers! Lesson Plan provided by the Council of Canadians. Includes key questions, talking points, sample municipal water declaration, follow-up activities.

Fact sheets

• Council of Canadians' submission to the Toronto District School Board in advance of a vote on whether to ban bottled water sales in their 560 schools June 2008
• Canada’s water under pressure: Five reasons to oppose bulk water exports October 2007
• A National Disgrace: Canada’s shameful position on the right to water October 2007
• Global water movement grows in numbers and force October 2007
• Deep Integration and water INTEGRATE THIS! A Citizen's Guide to Fighting Deep Integration
• Five things you should know about Canada's position on the right to water
• Water is a Human Right
• Canada needs a National Water Policy
• Fighting water public-private partnerships

Reports and articles

Documents obtained by the Council of Canadians provide damning evidence of how North American integration is being carried out by stealth. They describe a series of closed-door meetings with government officials and business leaders from Canada, Mexico and the United States to discuss everything from bulk water exports to a joint security perimeter and a continental resource pact, all with the explicit aim of helping executive-level politicians further integrate our three countries.

• Leaked document: North American Future 2025 Project (PDF format)
  Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
• Backgrounder: The North American Future 2025 Project (PDF format)
  The Council of Canadians' analysis(PDF format)

Water is a human right

• Lake Naivasha withering under the assault of international flower vendors (PDF), report by Food & Water Watch and The Council of Canadians, February 2008

• “A powerful, global movement”: Maude Barlow explains why the solution to the world water crisis is in our hands, Canadian Perspectives Autumn 2007

• National Disgrace: Canada’s shameful position on the right to water needs to change Canadian Perspectives Spring 2007

• Report from the World Social Forum in Nairobi (PDF), Kenya by Maude Barlow, January, 2007

• Challenging Corporate Investor Rule: How the World Bank’s Investment Court, Free Trade Agreements, and Bilateral Investment Treaties have Unleashed a New Era of Corporate Power and What to Do About It, by By Sarah Anderson of the Institute for Policy Studies and Sara Grusky of Food and Water Watch, April 2007

• Letter to Prime Minister Harper (PDF) on International Women’s Day to call on the Canadian government to endorse the right to water. March 2007

• Troubled Waters in First Nations Communities: Private companies cash in on failing water systems Canadian Perspectives,
  Autumn 2006

• Whistler chapter fights the stench of privatization Canadian Perspectives, Summer 2006

• Threats to Our Water: NAFTA, SPP, Atlantica, Super-Corridors (PDF) - by Dr. Janet M. Eaton for Sierra Club's Water Privatization Task Force. Alarming new developments that will promote the sale of bulk water between the three NAFTA countries, particularly from Canada to the U.S.

• Taking back the World Water Forum

• Passage to India

• Kyoto Showdown: Civil Society at the Third World Water Forum

• Activists Take Centre Stage at Water Forum

• Blue Gold: The Global Water Crisis and the Commodification of the World's Water Supply
  by Maude Barlow
  

Bulk water exports

• Canoeing to Montebello: Raging Grannies take to the water to fight bulk exports, Canadian Perspectives Autumn 2007
• The SPP and water: Bulk exports and the “joint optimum utilization of the available water”, Behind Closed Doors: What they're not telling us about the Security and Prosperity Partnership, July 2007
• Water Division, Export and Canada-US Relations: A Brief History (PDF format), Frank Quinn, The Program on Water Issues, Munk Centre for International Studies, August 2007
• On the Table: Water, Energy and North American Integration (PDF format), Andrew Nikiforuk, The Program on Water Issues, Munk Centre for International Studies, September 2007
• On the Defensive: Harper government backtracks on bulk water exports as Council holds "open door" meeting in Calgary, Canadian Perspectives, Summer 2007
• Bulk Water Exports: A Timeline, Canadian Perspectives, Summer 2007
• People are talking about water': An interview with the Council of Canadians' Susan Howatt, Canadian Perspectives, Summer 2007
• Threats to Our Water: NAFTA, SPP, Atlantica, Super-Corridors (PDF) - by Dr. Janet M. Eaton for Sierra Club's Water Privatization Task Force. Alarming new developments that will promote the sale of bulk water between the three NAFTA countries, particularly from Canada to the U.S
• Turning the tide on water shortages Canadian Perspectives, Summer 2006
• Great Lakes Basin Sustainable Water Resources Compact and the Diversion of Great Lakes Waters – A Legal Opinion
• Sucking the Great Lakes Dry
• The Great Lakes Annex Agreements: Still Leaking!
• A Victory for The Tay River
• Canada on Tap - The Environmental Implications of Water Exports
  by Jamie Linton
• Thirst for Control: New Rules in the Global Water Grab
  by Steven Shrybman
• Water Export Controls and Canadian International Trade Obligations
  by Steven Shrybman

Safe Water for First Nations

• Troubled Waters in First Nations Communities: Private companies cash in on failing water systems Canadian Perspectives, Autumn 2006
• The Growing Threat to Water & Indigenous Peoples
  

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updated November 6, 2008