In Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water, authors and activists Maude Barlow and Tony Clark aim to document the rapid privatization and commodification of water. Blue Gold tells the story of how recent international trade agreements are enabling big business to buy up the world's water, worsening the global water shortage crisis.
Blue Gold also provides information and strategies for taking action locally and globally to become fresh water's responsible custodians.
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