Renowned for her efforts against the privatization of water and for the advancement of water as a human right, Blue Gold author Maude Barlow now serves as the current senior advisor on water to Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, president of the 63rd session of the United Nations.
Recently appointed to the position, Barlow told the Ottawa Citizen that she intends to work daily with Brockmann to guide the U.N.’s efforts on water, address power imbalances in the water sector and develop a plan to materialize the “principle of the universal right to water.”
“With my heart and soul, I believe it is the single most important environmental and human-rights threat of our time, and it’s the one hitting now. There is nothing ‘in the future’ about this [issue],” she told Canada’s Globe and Mail, which christened her the Al Gore of water.
Source: Ottawa Citizen, Globe and Mail
