Maude Barlow on the global water crisis

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Maude Barlow on the global water crisis

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Jan 31, 2009

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Barlow argues that access to safe drinking water should be a basic human right and makes a compelling case for why the global water crisis will be the greatest environmental and human crisis of this century.

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Jan 31, 2009

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Maude Barlow on the global water crisis

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