United Nations, New York -- Council of Canadians chair Maude Barlow will make her first address to the United Nations General Assembly on the morning of April 22 to support the Bolivian call for an annual "International Mother Earth Day" celebration. Her speech will be a call to action to implement the human right to water. According to Barlow, this means the world will have to abandon the "hard path" of large-scale technology - dams, diversion and desalination - in favour of the "soft path" of conservation, rainwater and storm water harvesting, recycling, alternative energy use, municipal infrastructure investment and local, sustainable food production.