Whose Water Is It, Anyway? by Maude Barlow

Author:Maude Barlow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ECW Press
Published: 2019-09-03T00:00:00+00:00

The first Blue Communities

Concerned about the government promotion of P3s in the fall of 2009, the Council of Canadians and CUPE held a Canada-wide gathering called the Blue Summit. Hundreds of workers, environmentalists, Indigenous and community activists came together in Ottawa to discuss the many ways in which water was coming under corporate control. It had become clear that lobbying the federal government on these issues would be fruitless and that promoting grassroots activism and municipal opposition to the commodification of water was crucial if we were to have any influence. We launched the Blue Communities project there to promote public water management and public drinking water. The idea was to get municipalities across the country to adopt resolutions that would make it harder to privatize their water services.

To become a Blue Community, a municipality must:

recognize and protect water and sanitation as human rights;

protect water as a public trust by promoting publicly financed, owned and operated water and wastewater services; and

ban or phase out the sale of bottled water in municipal facilities and at municipal events.

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