Maude Barlow

Barlow chairs the board of Washington-based Food & Water Watch, serves on the board of advisors to the Global Alliance on the Rights of Nature, was a founding member of the San Francisco–based International Forum on Globalization, and was a councillor with the Hamburg-based World Future Council. She was the chancellor of Brescia University College at Western University for three years starting in 2020. In 2008/2009, she was Senior Advisor on Water to the 63rd President of the United Nations General Assembly. She has authored and co-authored 20 books, including Whose Water is it Anyway?: Taking Water Protection into Public Hands and Still Hopeful: Lessons From a Lifetime of Activism.

• Name — Maude Barlow • Birth Name — Maude Victoria Barlow • Born — 24 May 1947 • Birthplace — Toronto, Ontario, Canada • Awards — Right Livelihood Award • Known for — The Council of Canadians, Food & Water Watch, World Future Council • Occupation — Author and activist

• Illustration — Barlow with American activist Jesse Jackson in 2005. Barlow proposes the remunicipalization of water and sanitation services:

• Parcel of Rogues: How Free Trade Is Failing Canada – Key Porter Books, Toronto (1990). • Take Back the Nation (with Bruce Campbell) – Key Porter Books, Toronto (1991). • Take Back the Nation 2: Meeting the Threat of NAFTA (with Bruce Campbell) – Key Porter Books, Toronto (1993). • Class Warfare: The Assault on Canada's Schools (with Heather-Jane Robertson) – Key Porter Books, Toronto (1994). • Straight through the Heart: How the Liberals Abandoned the Just Society (with Bruce Campbell) – HarperCollins, Toronto (1995). • The Big Black Book: The Essential Views of Conrad and Barbara Amiel Black (with Jim Winter) – Stoddart, Toronto (1997). • MAI: The Multilateral Agreement on Investment and the Threat to Canadian Sovereignty (with Tony Clarke) – Stoddart, Toronto (1997). • MAI: The Multilateral Agreement on Investment and the Threat to American Freedom (with Tony Clarke) – Stoddart, Toronto (1998). • The Fight of My Life: Confessions of an Unrepentant Canadian – HarperCollins, Toronto (1998). • MAI Round 2: New Global and Internal Threats to Canadian Sovereignty (with Tony Clarke) – Stoddart, Toronto (1998). • Frederick Street: Life and Death on Canada's Love Canal (with Elizabeth May) – HarperCollins, Toronto (2000). • Global Showdown: How the New Activists Are Fighting Global Corporate Rule (with Tony Clarke) – Stoddart, Toronto (2001). • Blue Gold: The Battle Against Corporate Theft of the World's Water (with Tony Clarke) – Stoddart, Toronto (2002). • Profit Is Not the Cure: A Citizen's Guide to Saving Medicare – McClelland & Stewart, Toronto (2002). • Too Close For Comfort: Canada's Future Within Fortress North America – McClelland & Stewart, Toronto (2005). • Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Fight for the Right to Water – McClelland & Stewart, Toronto (2007). • Blue Future: Protecting Water for People and the Planet Forever – House of Anansi Press, Toronto (2013). • Boiling Point: Government Neglect, Corporate Abuse, and Canada's Water Crisis – ECW Press, Toronto (2016). • Whose Water Is It Anyway?: Taking Water Protection into Public Hands – ECW Press, Toronto (2019). • Still Hopeful: Lessons from a Lifetime of Activism – ECW Press, Toronto (2022). • Earth for Sale: The Fight to Stop the Last Plunder of the Planet – ECW Press, Toronto (2026).

• The Silent Revolution: Media, Democracy, and the Free Trade Debate – edited by James P. Winter, University of Ottawa Press (1990) • Trading Freedom: How Free Trade Affect our Lives, Work, and Environment – edited by John Cavanagh, John Gershman, Karen Baker, and Gretchen Helmke, Institute for Policy Studies, Washington (1992) • Crossing the Line: Canada and Free Trade With Mexico – edited by Jim Sinclair, New Star Books, Vancouver (1992) • The Charlottetown Accord, the Referendum, and the Future of Canada – edited by Kenneth McRoberts and Patrick J. Monahan, University of Toronto Press (1993) • The Trojan Horse: Alberta and the Future of Canada – edited by Gordon Laxer and Trevor Harrison, Black Rose Books, Edmonton (1995) • The Case Against the Global Economy and for a Turn Toward the Local – edited by Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith, Sierra Club Books, New York (1996) • Globalization and the Live Performing Arts: Conference Papers – Monash University, Melbourne (2001) • Alternatives to Economic Globalization: a Report of the International Forum on Globalization – edited by John Cavanagh and Jerry Mander, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, San Francisco (2002) • Whose Water Is It?: The Unquenchable Thirst of a Water-Hungry World – edited by Bernadette McDonald and Douglas Jehl, National Geographic, Washington (2003) • Meeting the Global Challenge: Competitive Position and Strategic Response – edited by Tom Wesson, York University Press, Toronto (2004) • Globalization, Human Rights & Citizenship: an Anthology from the Gannett Lecture Series – edited by Robert Manning, Rochester Institute of Technology (2005)

• "Blue Gold: the Global Water Crisis and the Commodification of the World’s Water Supply" – International Forum on Globalization, San Francisco (June 1999) • "The Free Trade Area of the Americas: the Threat to Social Programs, Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice" – International Forum on Globalization, San Francisco (February 2001) • "The World Trade Organization and the Threat to Canada's Social Programs" – The Council of Canadians, Ottawa (September 2001) • "Profit is Not the Cure: a Call to Action on the Future of Health Care in Canada" – The Council of Canadians, Ottawa (Winter 2002) • "Making the Links: a Citizen's Guide to the World Trade Organization and the Free Trade Area of the Americas" (with Tony Clarke) – The Council of Canadians, Ottawa (Summer 2003) • "The Global Fight Against Privatization of Water: Annual Report" – The World Forum on Alternatives, Geneva (April 2004) • "The Canada We Want: a Citizen's Alternative to Deep Integration" – The Council of Canadians, Ottawa (March 2004)