Troubled Water: Saints, Sinners, Truths and Lies about the Global Water Crisis
by Anita Roddick with Brooke Shelby-Biggs

People say that there will be wars over water. Will be? There always have been. Wealth follows power, and power follows water. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently told me, “We are witnessing something unprecedented: water no longer flows downhill. It flows toward money.”

That fact is hardly lost on the multinationals. “Water is one of the great business opportunities,” notes Fortune magazine. “It promises to be for the 21st Century what oil was for 20th.”

Fortunately, fighting back is the new politics of the 21st century. Everywhere power is being dissolved down to the level of the community. In this grassroots global revolution, we find people are quietly getting on with changing the lives of their communities positively. And where people are finding creative technological solutions undreamed of by the Microsofts, Bayers and Exxon of this world.

These people know that freedom isn‘t just about the right to vote dozen times during one’s life, but the right to decide one’s economic as well as political destiny. And that is precisely what economic globalization is stealing from people all over the world.

This book is a small effort to explore not just the problems of water world wide, but to identify and celebrate some possible solutions. Thirsty?