Barlow's Water Rage Set to Hit the UN

The new senior adviser on water to the president of the UN General Assembly has chalked up her share of adversaries, but promises to keep fighting.

By Michelle Collins

Published November 12, 2008

Maude Barlow has many fears about the future of the world's water. Most prominent among them is that her dire predictions that the world is running out of this precious resource will come true.

Just returned from a tour of the Alberta tar sands, Ms. Barlow seems at a loss to do anything but sigh in frustration during an interview with Embassy last week over what she saw there.

The stench emanating from the smokestacks...

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