Water crisis: Every drop matters, author states

Chico News & Review
By Ginger McGuire

The world is running out of clean water.

“We have polluted it … or we have moved it,” international water-rights activist Maude Barlow said Tuesday evening (Feb. 19) at a presentation about the world’s water crisis. “Use every drop of water twice.”

The Canadian author of Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water spoke to nearly 80 people at the Chico Grange Hall as part of a national book tour sponsored by Food & Water Watch, with this stop co-sponsored by the Butte Environmental Council and the Sacramento River Preservation Trust.

“Water is the most urgent, human [and] ecological crisis,” Barlow said, indicating that as many as two-thirds of the world’s people won’t have access to an adequate water supply by 2025 if existing practices and conditions continue.

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