Sources and credits

Video intro

The experience

  • Académie nationale de Pharmacie. 2008. Médicaments et environnement: Rapport de l'Académie nationale de Pharmacie. Paris: General Secretariat, p. 20.
  • Chapagain, A. K. and A. Y. Hoekstra. 2003. Virtual water flows between nations in relation to trade in livestock and livestock products. Value of Water Research Report Series No. 13. Delft: UNESCO-IHE, p. 9.
  • Dean, Cornelia. 2007."Drugs Are in the Water. Does It Matter? Correction Appended." In The New York Times, April 3, 2007. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/03/science/earth/03water.html?_r=3&sq=cornelia%20drinking%20water&st=nyt&scp=2&pagewanted=all (site consulted in January 2009).
  • Donn, Jeff, Martha Mendoza and Justin Pritchard (Associated Press). 2008. "Drugs found in drinking water." In USA Today, October 3, 2008, updated December 9, 2008. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-03-10-drugs-tap-water_N.htm (site consulted in January 2009).
  • Environment Canada. 2008. "Water – Dos and Don'ts." http://www.ec.gc.ca/water/en/info/pubs/primer/e_prim10.htm (site consulted in January 2009).
  • Environment Canada. 2008. "Water Wise." http://www.ec.gc.ca/water/en/info/pubs/nttw/e_nttwi3.htm (site consulted in January 2009).
  • Environment Canada. 2008. "Retrofit." http://www.ec.gc.ca/water/en/manage/effic/e_retro.htm (site consulted in January 2009).
  • Gleick, Peter H. 2004. "The myth and reality of bottled water." In The World's Water 2004-2005: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, p. 17.
  • Greenpeace. 2006. Cleaning up our Chemical Homes – Changing the market to supply toxic-free products. Amsterdam: Greenpeace International, 34 p.
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 2004. "Treaty on hazardous chemicals and pesticides trade to become law." http://www.fao.org/english/newsroom/news/2003/24790-en.html (consulted in January 2009).
  • Paquerot, Sylvie. 2005. Un monde sans gouvernail: enjeux de l'eau douce. Outremont: Athéna, p. 112.
  • Renault, D. and W. W. Wallender. 2000. "Nutritional water productivity and diets." In Agricultural Water Management, vol. 45, p. 289.
  • United Nations Development Programme. 2006. Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis. Human Development Report 2006. New York: United Nations Development Programme, p. 42.
  • Natural Resources Canada. 2005. "Forestry: Water Issues and Forests." http://nrcan.gc.ca/sd-dd/pubs/h2o/3-3_e.html (site consulted in January 2009).
  • Rhainds, Marc and Louis Saint-Laurent. 2004. "État des connaissances sur la toxicité et l'exposition humaine aux phtalates." In Bulletin d'information en santé environnementale, vol. 15, no. 2, p. 2.
  • Water Footprint Network. 2009. "Product Gallery" http://www.waterfootprint.org/?page=files/productgallery&product (site consulted in January 2009).

Headings

  • Barlow, Maude. 2007. Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water. New York: The New Press, pp. 3 and 6.
  • Centre national de la recherche scientifique. 2000. "L'eau douce, une ressource précieuse." Dossiers scientifiques SagaScience. http://www.cnrs.fr/cw/dossiers/doseau/accueil.html (site consulted in February 2009).
  • Chapagain, A. K., A. Y. Hoekstra, H. H. G. Savenije and R. Gautam. 2006. "The water footprint of cotton consumption: An assessment of the impact of worldwide consumption of cotton products on the water resources in the cotton producing countries". In Ecological Economics, vol. 60, p. 193.
  • Gleick, Peter H. 2004. "The millennium development goals for water: Crucial objectives, inadequate commitments." In The World's Water 2004-2005: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources. Washington, D.C: Island Press, p. 9.
  • Hinrichsen, Don, Bryant Robey and Ushma D. Upadhyay. 1997. Solutions for a Water-Short World. Population Reports, Series M, no. 14. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Population Information Program.
  • United Nations Development Programme. 2006. Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis. Human Development Report 2006. New York: United Nations Development Programme, p. 3.
  • WHO and UNICEF. 2008. Progress on Drinking Water and Sanitation: Special Focus on Sanitation. New York: UNICEF; Geneva: WHO, p. 23.

The water crisis

  • Aït-Amara, Hamid, Abdallah Charif and Mehdi Lahlou. 2007. "L'eau au coeur du développement humain dans le Maghreb contemporain." In Imaginaires de l'eau, imaginaires du monde: dix regards sur l'eau et sa symbolique dans les sociétés humaines, coordinated by Hana Aubry. Paris: La dispute, p. 194.
  • Barlow, Maude. 2007. Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water. New York: The New Press, pp. 3, 6 and 8.
  • Environment Canada. 2007. "Waste Management: Used Lubricating Oils and Used Oil Filters." http://www.ec.gc.ca/drgd-rmd/default.asp?lang=En&n=C56D8BCE-1 (site consulted in January 2009).
  • Gleick, Peter H. 2004. "The millennium development goals for water: Crucial objectives, inadequate commitments." In The World's Water 2004-2005: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, p. 9.
  • Meybeck, Michel. 2003. "Global analysis of river systems: from Earth system controls to Anthropocene syndromes." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London, B, vol. 358 (November), no. 1,440, p. 1,940.
  • Molden, David and Charlotte de Fraiture. 2004. "Investing in Water for Food, Ecosystems and Livelihoods."Colombo: International Water Management Institute, p. 15.
  • WHO and UNICEF. 2004. Meeting the MDG Drinking Water and Sanitation Target: A Mid-Term Assessment of Progress. Geneva: WHO; New York: UNICEF, p. 21.
  • WHO and UNICEF. 2008. Progress on Drinking Water and Sanitation: Special Focus on Sanitation. New York: UNICEF; Geneva: WHO, pp. 2, 23 and 35.
  • Palaniappan, Meena, Emily Lee and Andrea Samulon. 2006. "Environmental justice and water." In The World's Water: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources, Peter H. Gleick (editor). Washington, D.C.: Island Press, p. 126.
  • Paquerot, Sylvie. 2005. Un monde sans gouvernail: enjeux de l'eau douce. Outremont: Athéna, p. 50, 84, 94, 96, 101 and 110.
  • United Nations Development Programme. 2006. Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis. Human Development Report 2006. New York: United Nations Development Programme, pp. v, vi, 5, 6, 7, 23, 34, 42, 48, 80 and 143.
  • Shalizi, Zmarak. 2006. "Addressing China's Growing Water Shortages and Associated Social and Environmental Consequences."World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3895. Washington, D.C.: World Bank, Development Research Group, p. 11.
  • Water Footprint Network. 2009. "Product Gallery" http://www.waterfootprint.org/?page=files/productgallery&product (site consulted in January 2009).
  • World Resources Institute. 2007. "EarthTrends: Water Resources and Freshwater Ecosystems. " http://earthtrends.wri.org/searchable_db/index.php?theme=2 (site consulted in January 2009).
  • World Water Assessment Programme. 2006. Water: A Shared Responsibility: The United Nations World Water Development Report 2. Paris: UNESCO; New York: Berghahn Books, p. 17.