Maude Barlow

About Maude Barlow

Maude Barlow is an activist who served as an adviser on water to the UN. She is also chancellor of Brescia University College. Her latest book is Whose Water is it Anyway? Taking Water Protection Into Public Hands.

6 Articles

Line 5 threatens more jobs than it sustains

Enbridge calls Line 5 “as good as new” and says it can last “forever,” even though the pipeline has failed at least 33 times since 1968, spilling more than 1.1 million gallons of oil in Michigan and Wisconsin, write Maude Barlow and Jim Olson.

What good is a single-use plastics ban if it doesn't include water bottles?

The world is now producing half a trillion plastic water bottles every year, and only nine per cent of all plastic ever produced has been recycled.

It's been 10 years since clean water was declared a human right — and there's still work to be done

The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown a huge spotlight on the water crisis as half the world's population does not have a place to wash their hands with soap and warm water.

COVID-19 puts the human right to water front and centre

Pandemic exacerbated by the fact that more half the global population lacks access to somewhere to wash with soap and warm water

Coronavirus in Canada

Let's get our story right

We could curb every greenhouse gas emission in the world tomorrow but we would still have a global water crisis, writes Maude Barlow. She suggests it's wrong to blame climate change alone for the flooding in Eastern Canada.

Justin Trudeau, Liberal Party of Canada, Winnipeg, 2016, convention

Opinion: Put down the selfie sticks and protect water in Canada

It’s time to put the selfie sticks down. The Trudeau government is following in Stephen Harper's footsteps and promoting the extractive industry as the driver of jobs.