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For world water day, montreal has the privilege of welcoming maude barlow, an eminent specialist on water issues. She has served on the executive of the global alliance for the rights of nature and is a councillor with the hamburgbased world future council. She discusses the hydrological damage caused by pollution and by the displacement and diversion of water. She also chairs the board of washingtonbased food and water. Maude barlow and tony clarke, two of the most active opponents to this trend, show how the corporate giants act in their own interest and how, contrary to received wisdom, water flows.

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