Boiling Point, Maude Barlow
Boiling Point, Maude Barlow
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Boiling Point
Government Neglect, Corporate Abuse, and Canada’s Water Crisis

Author: Maude Barlow

Narrator: Kelly Fanson

Unabridged: 7 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 07/27/2018


Synopsis

Passionate and cogent, this could be the most important book of the year for Canadians We are complacent. We bask in the idea that Canada holds 20% of the world’s fresh water — water crises face other countries, but not ours. We could not be more wrong. In Boiling Point, bestselling author and activist Maude Barlow lays bare the issues facing Canada’s water reserves, including long-outdated water laws, unmapped and unprotected groundwater reserves, agricultural pollution, industrial-waste dumping, boil-water advisories, and the effects of deforestation and climate change. This will be the defining issue of the coming decade, and most of us have no idea that it is on our very own doorstep. Barlow is one of the world’s foremost water activists and she has been on the front lines of the world’s water crises for the past 20 years. She has seen first-hand the scale of the water problems facing much of the world, but also many of the solutions that are being applied. In Boiling Point, she brings this wealth of experience and expertise home to craft a compelling blueprint for Canada’s water security.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dr. Cat on November 13, 2021

Maude Barlow has been one of the most consistent and important voices in water conservation, protection and blue justice for over 20 years. She has attacked the problems affecting clean water from every single conceivable angle. She's helped to bring light to huge injustices facing Indigenous commun......more

Goodreads review by Rhys on July 03, 2021

Maude Barlow doing what she does best: exposing Canada's failure to protect water for environmental integrity and to provide clean water as a basic human right (particularly for First Nations).......more

Goodreads review by Tim on October 16, 2016

A disturbing examination of the loss of public rights to water in favour of corporate access, the lack of federal oversight of natural resources, and the degradation of our environment.......more

Goodreads review by Marky on July 28, 2019

Oh boy... everyone should take an hour to listen to Dr. Albert A. Bartlett's lecture on compounded growth "Arithmetic, Population and Energy"(1) and then read this book. We're not going to run out of water, but we can run out of cheap water... (1) [URL not allowed]......more

Goodreads review by Chris on September 22, 2021

Audiobook read by: Kelly Fanson. One of the more negative environmental books that I've found; doesn't have many suggestions for folks who aren't going to be in office in Ottawa. I hesitate to recommend any book that doesn't have any better suggestion than to call your elected official, but the infor......more