Waterkeeper: how water can be a blueprint for peace | Canadian Geographic

For Bashar Alshawwa, water is not just a basic need — it is both the heart of global inequality and the key to peace. After decades of occupation, exile and war, he is working to turn a weaponized resource into a bridge between peoples.

Bashar Alshawwa thinks Canadians are spoiled. He’s immediately apologetic as he admits this, smiling sheepishly — and questions out loud if he even has the right to say that as a newcomer to Canada from the occupied West Bank. But to him, being able to turn on the tap at home at any time — and get clean water on demand — is a new kind of “heaven” that he thinks most Canadians don’t appreciate enough. “I’m enjoying the water here because, back home, we can’t drink the tap water for a million different reasons,” Alshawwa says. Among them: old, unrenovated water systems. Pollution. And,…

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