Close to two billion people worldwide now live in water-stressed regions and that number is growing fast, especially true in areas like the Middle East, Australia, large parts of Asia and the midwestern United States. We’ll talk about the state of fresh water in the world and what’s being done so that we’ll all have drinking water in our future.
- Maude Barlow, head of the Council of Canadians, Canada’s largest public advocacy organization, founder of the Blue Planet Project and author of Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water