QUOTES
We
cannot leave the management of our most precious resource in the hands of bureaucrats
in government or the private corporations, whether or not they are well intentioned.
We, the people, must preserve this special trust, we must fight for it, and we
must take our proper role and demand water democracy.
-- Maude Barlow and
Tony Clarke
"Under
the current model of globalization, everything is for sale. Areas once considered
our common heritage are being commodified, commercialized and privatized at an
alarming rate. Today, more than ever before, the targets of this assault comprise
the building blocs of life as we know it on this planet, including freshwater,
the human genome, seeds and plant varieties, the air and atmosphere, the oceans
and outer space. The assault on, and defence of, the commons is one of the great
ideological and social struggles of our times."
-- Maude Barlow and Tony
Clarke
