1. Blue Gold 
   The battle against corporate theft of the world's water
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2002   Published: 2003
   International tensions around water are rising in many of the world's most volatile regions.This book exposes the enormity of the problem, the dangers of the proposed solution and the alternative, which is to recognize access to water as a fundamental human right, not dependent on ability to pay.
2. Blue Gold: World Water Wars 
   Resource Type: Film/Video
   First Published: 2008
   A documentary, based on the book Blue Gold, by Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, which examines environmental and political implications of the planet's dwindling water supply, and posits that wars in the future will be fought over water. The film also highlights some success stories of water activists around the world and makes a strong case for community action.
3. Chemicals in your water: A little is too much
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1984
   There is reason to be concerned about the increasing amounts of chemicals in our water.
4. Connexions Digest
   Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1989
   
5. Connexions Selected Links & Resources: Walkerton Links
   Resource Type: Website
   Links related to Walkerton water contamination disaster.
6. Contaminated Meat, Contaminated Water: From Walkerton to Listeria
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2008
   The current listeria outbreak has the feel of deja vu all over again. Once again, we are hearing about companies and industry associations lobbying for fewer inspections and less 'interference', and about a compliant right-wing government only too eager to give them what they want.
   
7. Contamination: The Poisonous Legacy of Ontario's Environmental Cutbacks 
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2000
   The story of Ontario's right-wing Harris government, which gutted health and environmental protection polices, leading to the Walkerton water disaster.
8. Dying for Growth
   Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor
   Resource Type: Book
   
9. EnvironmentSources.com
   Resource Type: Website
   First Published: 2017
   Web portal with information about environmental issues and resources, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
10. Fracking kills newborn babies - polluted water likely cause
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    A new study in Pennsylvania, USA shows that fracking is strongly related to increased mortality in young babies. The effect is most pronounced in counties with many drinking water wells indicating that contamination by 'produced water' from fracking is a likely cause. Radioactive pollution with uranium, thorium and radium is a 'plausible explanation' for the excess deaths.
11. Gaza: water crisis grows as Israel targets essential infrastructure
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Israel's war on Gaza has seen the systematic and widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure essential for human survival. This represents an apparently deliberate 'cutting off of life support' to those that survive the bombardment now under way.
12. Nestlé: Malevolent Corporation Capitalizes on Global Water Crisis
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Demand for water is outstripping supply at an accelerating rate. Nestlé’s goal is to shift government policy away from providing public municipal water supplies to people, and toward a dependency on bottled water to provide basic drinking water.
13. 150 years of dirty water
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1984
    Toronto's water has been polluted pretty much since the city was founded - but that doesn't mean we should put up with it.
14. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 12, 2015
    SYRIZA
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    This week we're featuring the 40-point program which SYRIZA, the Greek coalition of the radical left, put forward to win the Greek election. Oliver Tickell writes about the mass media's latest campaign of pro-war propaganda, this time revolving around supposed "Russian aggression" in Ukraine, while Paul Edwards looks at another form of war propaganda, Clint Eastwood's 'American Sniper'. The Topic of the Week is Water Rights. Related items include the film "Blue Gold: World Water Wars," the featured website International Rivers, and articles on water-related struggles, past and present, including articles on the Walkerton water disaster and the Cochabamba water war.
15. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter June 26, 2017
    Public Safety
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2017
    The June 26, 2017 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter is about public safety.
16. Retired GM worker speaks on three years of the Flint water crisis
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The poisoning of the city of Flint continues three long years after the decision was made by politicians and financial speculators to switch city residents to Flint River water. As the world now knows, the corrosive Flint River water leached lead from the antiquated piping system into the homes of residents. Lead is a deadly neurotoxin. Because next to nothing has yet been done to fix the city’s infrastructure, even after the switch back to Detroit water, there is no safe water supply for thousands of residents.
17. "Superman Is Not Coming": Erin Brockovich on the Future of Water
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Come take a ride on America's toxic water slide: First stop: Flint, Michigan, where two years later, people are still contending with lead-laced water, which was finally detected by the EPA in February 2015 with the help of resident Lee Anne Walters. Next stop: California, where hundreds of wells have been contaminated with 1,2,3-TCP, a Big Oil-manufactured chemical present in pesticides.
18. Walkerton Tragedy
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Brief overview of the Walkerton water contamination incident.
19. The Water Front
    Resource Type: Film
    First Published: 2007
    Follows the heated struggle between residents, water workers and corporate managers in Highland Park, Michigan to spotlight what many of us take for granted - the right to affordable water.
20. When Water is a Commodity Instead of a Human Right
    The Agony of Detroit
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The shutoff of water to thousands of Detroit residents, the proposed privatization of the water system and the diversion of the system’s revenue to banks are possible because the most basic human requirement, water, is becoming nothing more than a commodity.

Experts on Trinkwasser in the Sources Directory

1. World Health Organization