Maude Barlow is the National Chairperson of The Council of Canadians, a Director with the International Forum on Globalization, and co-founder of the Blue Planet Project. She is the best-selling author or co-author of 13 books. Tony Clarke is the director of the Polaris Institute of Canada, and chairs the committee on corporations for the International Forum on Globalization. Together, Barlow and Clarke have co-authored three books on the Multilateral Agreement on Investment, and were the Canadian leaders in the successful struggle to scuttle that deal.

In this international bestseller, currently available in more than a dozen countries, Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke describe the real and worsening global water crisis, and reveal the plans of transnational corporations to profit from it. The authors present both a compelling case and a practical plan for fighting back against the corporate takeover of this most precious natural resource.