Videos—most can be
watched online or are available through Amazon:
Blue Gold
Sun Come Up
Gasland I and II
Split Estate
Tapped
Bag It!
Addicted to Plastic
Thirst
Deep Down
The Last Mountain
Water Wars
FLOW (For the Love of Water)
A World Without Water
The Story of Bottled Water
The Water Front
Books
to get you started:
A Great Aridness, by William DeBuys.
Oxford Press, 2011. Don't miss this book of tremendous depth and scope,
illuminating current research and painting a stark picture of the realities of
drought. If you only read one book on these issues, make it this one!
Blue Gold: the Fight to Stop the Corporate
Theft of the World's Water, by Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke. New Press, 2005.
Water commodification, globalism, corruption—all of these figure into water
scarcity issues. The book behind the film.
Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis
and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water, by Maude Barlow, New Press, 2009.
Maude Barlow leads the fight to make the right to water a human right, pitted
against some of the largest corporations in the world.
When the Rivers Run Dry: the Defining
Crisis of the 21st Century,
by Fred Pearce, Beacon, 2007. A realistic look at the issue which will eclipse
all others in our lifetimes.
On the Edge, Water, Immigration and
Politics in the New Southwest, by Char Miller.Trinity Press, 2013. A very
relatable book for Texans, in which the author lays out the harder truths which
prompt so much denial.
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