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INTERVIEWS
 Read
edited transcripts of interviews with people featured
in DEAD IN THE WATER. All are .pdf files.
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MAUDE
BARLOW: The National Chairperson
of the Council of Canadians - a citizen’s
watchdog organization with over 100,000 members.
One of their ongoing campaigns is that water
is a public trust which belongs to everyone.
I think it’s very
important for people in the north to understand
that people in the south are not the problem
in terms of water. We’re the water guzzlers,
we in Canada, we in the United States, we in
Europe... it’s our lifestyle, it’s
corporate farming, it’s industry, it’s
the fact that you can’t go home tonight
and count the outlets you have in your house
for water. More
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JEFFREY
SACHS: The Special Advisor to UN
Secretary General Kofi Annan on the Millenium
Development Goals. He is also Director of the
Earth Institute at Columbia University where
he teaches sustainable development and health
policy and management.
The rich have gotten so
rich and the poor are so desperately poor that
even tiny amounts from the rich as a fraction
of their vast income and wealth could make all
the difference for people that are dying of
their poverty right now.
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JAMAL
SAGHIR: The Director for Energy and
Water in the World Bank group's private sector
development and infrastructure vice presidency.
Water is life. That’s
number one. The water resource is life. But
from the resource you have to take this water
and get it to the consumer. There is a cost
for it. You need to clean it, you need to put
it in a pipe, you have to put a meter on it,
you have to deliver it. There is a cost for
it. More
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ANTOINE
FRÉROT: The Managing
Director, Water Division, Veolia Environnement
(formerly Vivendi Environnement) which provides
water and wastewater services to more than 110
million people and 40,000 businesses in about
100 countries.
We don’t sell water.
Because our consumers do not consume water.
Every day they borrow water and every day they
return it, in the same quantity, but not with
the same quality. They return it dirtier. What
you consumed today isn’t water, because
you have returned it. It is its quality, its
purity, its ability to arrive in your kitchen
and bathroom. What you consume isn’t water,
it’s water-related services. More
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