REGENTS' LECTURE:
The Global Water Crisis and the Coming
Battle for the Right to
Water
FREE
Maude Barlow (Chairperson, Food and Water Watch)
Tuesday, May 11 / 7:00 PM
Corwin Pavilion
By 2030, demand for fresh water will outstrip
supply by forty percent. The global water crisis is the greatest human
and ecological crisis of our time. Because most of us were raised with
the myth of water abundance, we have been slow to come to terms with the
enormity of the threat of a world without water. Maude Barlow will
outline the nature of the crisis, including the crisis facing California,
and offer the practical principles that could lead to a water-secure
future. Maude Barlow is the National Chairperson of the Council of
Canadians and chairs the board of Washington-based Food and Water Watch.
She is also an executive member of the San Francisco-based International
Forum on Globalization and a Councillor with the Hamburg-based World
Future Council. Barlow is the recipient of eight honorary
doctorates. She is also the best-selling author or co-author of
16 books, including Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis
and The Coming Battle for the Right to Water.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Oil+Water series, UCSB Arts &
Lectures, the Dept. of History of Art & Architecture, the Dept. of
Film and Media Studies, the Environmental Studies Program, the
Environmental Defense Center and the Community Environmental
Council.