By Maude Barlow (House of Anansi Press Inc., 2013). The final book in Maude Barlow's trilogy on the global water crisis, in which she uses four powerful principles to argue for a solution to create a water-secure world.

by Chris Wood, Ralph Pentland (Greystone Books, 2013). In water-rich Canada we assume we have an unlimited supply of tap water safe for consumption, but that is not necessarily the case. Wood and Pentland expose a detailed history of water mismanagement and lack of government action to safeguard our precious resource. Includes an idea for a charter that will hold government accountable for protecting water.

"Weather is changing.  Get ready for it." Weather is felt most tangibly through water: rain, snow, flooding, drought, ice.  In Dry Spring by Chris Woods, we learn how climate change is already affecting North American orchardists, fishers and people who live on the coast.  Wood offers some suggestions about how to mitigate the worst effects.

By Charles Clover (2006). Fewer and smaller fish, and sometimes no fish at all - fish "mining", by-catch losses, pollution and lack of regulation and political will all contribute to declining stocks the world over. Clover proposes some reasonable solutions.