The Private Drain On Public Water
( working TV #146 & 147,
first broadcast June 18 & 25 1999,
RT: 27.30 mins each
combined as part of . . . ) working TV Private Drain On Public Water Special
(includes all content of #146 & #147),
first broadcast June 16 1999 (57:30)
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Probably the most important programming we have broadcast in 1999,
The Private Drain On Public Water, sounds the alarm on the coming global water crisis . . .
"The wars of the next century will be about water"
The World Bank"Today's water will be tomorrow's oil"
Sergio Marchi, Canada's Minister of International Trade"Trading water is environmentally, economically and morally wrong"
Maude Barlow, Council of Canadians
 | Maude Barlow, Chair of the Council of Canadians at the April 21 1999 Public Forum on the Public Drain On Public Water at St. Andrew's Wesley United Church in Vancouver. |
| Barry O'Neill, President of the Canadian Union of Public Employees - BC Division (CUPE BC) introduced the topic of privatization of public resources, drawing on his union's experience. |
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For more information on CUPE's "Public Works" campaign click here. |
By the year 2025, two-thirds of the world's people will live without enough clean water. Canada holds 20% of the world's supply of fresh water and corporations are lining up to export and sell bulk quanitities of it abroad for huge profits.
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