Maude Barlow: Do You Foresee Wars Over Water?

In this video Maude Barlow answers the question if she foresees war over water. She is the National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians and Senior Advisor on Water to the President of  the United Nations General Assembly. 

She says that struggles over water are already happening on different scales: between people, between states, between nations. Moreover, big cooperation seem to play a key role in the disputes. For example, she names Bechtel in Bolivia and Nestle in The Philippines.

I find her observation that the struggles will be between those of us who believe in water as a public service, who see it as a human right, and those who treat it is a commodity interesting.

Disputes over water are also likely to happen within the United States, as she talks about several states that already argue over water.