Water On The Table is Nominated for the Donald Brittain Award for Best Social, Political Documentary at the 25th Annual Gemini Awards!
Winners will be announced at the Broadcast Gala on Saturday November 13th at the historic Winter Garden Theatre and will be broadcast live-to-tape on Global and Showcase.

Water On The Table premieres at Planet in Focus
Compelling and relevant documentary follows Maude Barlow in her quest  to have the UN declare water a human right
TORONTO, August 23 – On the heels of last month’s victorious vote by the United Nations General Assembly to recognize the human right to water and sanitation, Planet in [...]

Op-Ed Submission to the Globe and Mail
On July 28, the General Assembly of the United Nations voted overwhelmingly, for the first time, to adopt a resolution recognizing the human right to drinking water and sanitation. One hundred and twenty two countries voted in favour of the resolution, none opposed and 41 abstained. The General Assembly [...]

Dear friends
Maude Barlow, the main subject of the documentary Water On The Table, is in part, hugely responsible for the positive outcome and the historic vote that took place at the United Nations General Assembly this past week: Of the 192 member states, 122 voted YES to recognize the Human Right to Water and Sanitation. [...]

Today was the historic U.N General Assembly vote on the Right to Water and Sanitation.
Although the motion passed with 124 countries voting in favour of the resolution drafted by Bolivia, Canada was among the 41 nations to abstain on the issue.

Montreal Gazette
Earthtimes.org
Canadians.org

Global Week of Action for
the Human Right to Water
BLUE PLANET PROJECT
The moment for having states recognize the human right to water and sanitation is right now. This is a critical step to seeing action to address the needless loss of dignity, misery and death that comes with not having clean water and sanitation.

An historic [...]

Dear Excellencies,
I am writing all UN Ambassadors, permanent missions, and member states of the United Nations to seek your support for a very important initiative now taking place at the United Nations General Assembly concerning the human right to water and sanitation.
On June 17, a draft resolution declaring the human right to “safe and clean [...]

Hello Liz,
I wanted to write to you and thank you  for bringing your film “Water on the Table to the Algonquin Theatre in Huntsville on June 24th.  The discussion after the film led a group of us  to carry the message about water as a human right  during the G8 Summit in Huntsville.  We walked [...]

Published On Tue Jul 13 2010
TORONTO STAR.COM
By Maude Barlow and Anil Naidoo
On June 17, Pablo Solon, the Bolivian ambassador to the United Nations, presented a draft resolution declaring the human right to “available, safe, acceptable, accessible and affordable water and sanitation” to a closed-door consultation at the UN General Assembly that will be dealt with [...]

For Immediate Release
July 8, 2010
Groups demand release of parliamentary findings on tar sands and water
Ottawa – The Indigenous Environmental Network and the Council of Canadians are calling on the Federal government to immediately release the findings of the Parliamentary Committee on the Environment and Sustainable Development regarding the impacts of Tar Sands operations on Alberta [...]