Boiling Point

Government Neglect, Corporate Abuse, and Canada's Water Crisis

Maude Barlow

• Publisher: ECW Press
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9781770909472
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Environment & Energy Policy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Passionate and cogent, this could be the most important book of the year for Canadians

We are complacent. We bask in the idea that Canada holds 20% of the world's fresh water — water crises face other countries, but not ours. We could not be more wrong. In Boiling Point, bestselling author and activist Maude Barlow lays bare the issues facing Canada's water reserves, including long-outdated water laws, unmapped and unprotected groundwater reserves, agricultural pollution, industrial-waste dumping, boil-water advisories, and the effects of deforestation and climate change. This will be the defining issue of the coming decade, and most of us have no idea that it is on our very own doorstep.

Barlow is one of the world's foremost water activists and she has been on the front lines of the world's water crises for the past 20 years. She has seen first-hand the scale of the water problems facing much of the world, but also many of the solutions that are being applied. In Boiling Point, she brings this wealth of experience and expertise home to craft a compelling blueprint for Canada's water security.

Index

Note: The page numbers listed in this index will not correspond to locations in your ebook, but this index has been retained as a list of searchable terms.

2,4-D

Aamjiwnaang First Nation

Abbotsford, B.C.

Aberfoyle Springs

AbitibiBowater

ACCIONA Agua

acid rain

Aecon Group

After the Sands: Energy and Ecological Security for Canadians

Agcapita

AGInvest Canada

agribusiness

in Australia

factory farms

foreign investment in

growth of

NAFTA facilitation of

pollution trading by

water and

agricultural exports

agricultural law

agriculture

family farms

prices of farmland

size of farms

as source of phosphorus

water consumption in

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Agriculture Growth Act

agro-industrial farming

Akwesasne

Alberta

Alberta Clipper pipeline

Alberta Energy Regulator

Alec, Stuart

algae

algal blooms

The Algal Bowl

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Alliston Aquifer

Alpine Cheese Company

AltaCorp Capital

Alternative Federal Budget

Alton Gas Storage Project

Alward, David

Amazon River

American Chamber of Commerce

American Petroleum Institute

Andes Petroleum

Andrew, William

animal waste

anti–water export bill

Apache

Aquavist

aqueducts

aquifers

contamination of

mapping of

monitoring of

overpumping of

Aral Sea

Arctic lakes

Argentina

Ashworth, William

Assembly of First Nations (AFN)

Assiniboia

ATCO Group

Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation

Athabasca River

Athabasca Sandstone

atrazine

Aundeck Omni Kaning First Nation

Australia

Aware Simcoe

Bair, Julene, 180–181

Bakken fields

Bakken shale gas

Baltgailis, Karen

Ban, Ki-moon

Barlee, Gwen

Bayfield, Ontario

Beaton, Danny

Beausoleil First Nation

Beaver Lake Cree First Nation

Bechtel

beef industry

Bellegarde, Perry

Bellringer, Carol

beluga whales

Bennett, Carolyn

benzene

Beyond Factory Farming

Bharadwaj, Lalita

Bierkens, Mark

Bilcon Construction

Bill C-38 (2012)

Bill C-45 (2013)

Bill C-383

biodiversity

biofuels

biotic pumps

Bison pipeline

bitumen. see tar sands oil/bitumen

bitumen spills

see also oil spills

bitumen wastewater

Blake, Melissa

Blood First Nation

Blue Baby Syndrome

Blue Communities

Blue Dot campaign

blue gold

Blue Planet Project

blue-green algae

Boehm, Terry

boil-water advisories

see also Drinking Water Advisories (DWAs); water quality advisories

Bonnefield

Boreal Action

Boreal Birds Need Half campaign

boreal forest

Boreal Songbird Initiative

bottled water

ban of in Blue Communities

contaminants in

as energy intensive

lack of testing of

bottled water industry

cost of water to

drought and

lack of oversight in

boundary waters

Boundary Waters Treaty

Bourassa, Robert

Bow glacier

Bow River

Bowman, Brian

Boyd, David

BP refinery

Brabeck-Letmathe, Peter

Brandes, Oliver

Brazil

Breckenridge, Peggy

Bretton Woods Conference

British Columbia

Broderick, Leo

Brooymans, Hann...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• One — A History of Neglect and Abuse
• Two — A Federal Government Missing in Action
• Three — First Nations on the Front Line
• Four — Where Oil Meets Water
• Five — Hewers of Wood, Drawers of Water
• Six — Agribusiness Imperils Water
• Seven — Water for Sale
• Eight — The Corporate Free Trade Threat to Canada’s Water
• Nine — A Blue and Just Canada Is Possible
• Last Thoughts
• Acknowledgements
• Endnotes
• Index
• About the Author
• Copyright