About the Authors| Introduction | Resources|
A Book By : ANITA RODDICK
with Brooke Shelby Biggs
 
 
         
 

WaterAid
Water Aid is an international NGO dedicated exclusively to the sustainable provision of safe domestic water, sanitation and hygiene education to the world’s poorest people. Water Aid contributed chapter 10 (“The Weight of Water”)

Prince Consort House, 27-29 Albert
Embankment, London
SE1 7UB, UK
Tel: 020 7793 4500
Fax: 020 7793 4545
Email: wateraid@wateraid.org
Web: www.wateraid.org

The People’s Water Forum
A populist coalition formed to challenge the World Water Forum – an alliance of multinational water monopolists, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund.

X-5, Hauz Khas
New Delhi, India
Tel: 91 11 2696 8077
Fax: 91 11 2656 2093
Email: pwwf@pwwf.org
Web: www.pwwf.org

UNESCO Water
The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization’s clearinghouse for international water related resources. UNESCO contributed facts throughout the book, including chapter11 (“Bombs Away: Water and Warfare”).

Email: waterportal@unesco.org
Web: www.unesco.org/water

Life Water International
A Christian charity dedicated to providing safe drinking water and sanitation systems to developing countries.
PO Box 3131, San Luis Obispo,
Ca 93403,USA
Tel: 805 541 6634
Fax: 805 541 6649
Email: info@liefwater.org

 
Natural Resources Defense Council
The NRDC defends natural places systems, and creatures through the legal system, legislation and lobbying, and grassroots organizing. One of its primary foci is clean water and oceans.

40 west 20th Street
New York, NY 10011, USA
Tel: 212 727 2700
Fax: 212 727 1773
Email: nrdcinfo@nrdc.org
Web: www.nrdc.org

 
 

Council of Canadians
Founded in 1985, The Council of Canadians is canada’s pre-eminent citizen’s watchdog organization, focusing on public interest issues related to globalization. Chair Maude Barlow, co-author of chapter 2 (“The Lords of Water”) and Chapter 7 (“Evian Backward if naiva”) is a leading thinker on global water issues.

502-151 Slater Street
Ottowa, Ontario
K1p 5H3, Canada
Tel: 613 233 2773 or 800 387 7177
Fax: 613 233 6776
Email: inquiries@canadians.org
Web: www.canadians.org

 

Water Partners International
Water Partners International is an NGO committed to providing clean drinking water to communities in developing countries.
PO Box 22680
Kansas City, M O 64113-0680, USA
Tel: 913 312 8600
Email: info@water.org
Web: www.water.org

World Commission on Dams
A collaboration of activists, engineers and bureaucrats to study and debate the controversial global issues surrounding the construction of large dams. With its final report in 2000 it disbanded, but remains one of the most influential organizations ever to convene on the subject.

Web: dams.org or unep-dams.org

 
Global Resistance – India Resource Center
India Resource Center works to support movements against corporate globalization in India and is a project of Global Resistance. Global Resistance works to strengthen the movement against corporate globalization by supporting and linking local, grassroots struggles against globalization around the world. Coordinator Amit Srivastava is author of Chapter 6 (“Coca-Colanization”).

7404 Potrero Avenue, El Cerrito,
CA 94530, USA
Email: indiaresources@igc.org
Web: www.GlobalResistance.Org
Or www.IndiaResource.org

 
 
     
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