Programs & Events

Chronological List of Programs

Fall Literary Series Benefiting
826 Valencia Scholarship Program

Cultural Studies

On Art & Politics

Social Studies

Special Events

California Academy of
Sciences Series

end of season specials

 Herbst Theatre

Tickets:
City Box Office www.cityboxoffice.com
415.392.4400

Books:
Books Inc. www.booksinc.net

Maude Barlow

In conversation with Alan Snitow

Thursday, June 3, 2010  |  Herbst Theatre, 8pm

Recipient of the Right Livelihood Award for her work on global water justice, Maude Barlow is considered by many to be one of the world's leading experts on water issues. "This notion that we'll have water forever is wrong. California is running out. It's got twenty-some years of water." Barlow talks about how our misuse of water may actually be changing the hydrological cycle and contributing to global warming. In 2008, she was appointed as the United Nation's first senior adviser on water issues, a role she hopes to use to establish water as a human right. She is also the co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, a group that works to protect fresh water from trade and privatization around the world. Barlow chairs the board of Washington-based Food & Water Watch and is also an executive member of the San Francisco-based International Forum on Globalization. Barlow holds several honorary doctorates and has written or co-written 16 books including the international best seller Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and The Coming Battle for the Right to Water.

Alan Snitow was the News Director for eight years at the Bay Area's Pacifica Radio station, KPFA-FM, winning the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Gold Award for Best Local Newscast. His films include the award-winning Thirst and he co-authored a book by the same title.

Buy Tickets   |  Back to Chronological List    |  Back to Series