Problems are addressed in a narrative progression that gets more horrendous and builds into utter despair, except for the final few words of activism and optimism.
Flow: For Love of Water
How Did a Handfull of Corporations Steal Our Water?
2008 · 1h 24m · TV-Y7
Documentary
Directed by
Irena Salina
Overview
From both local and global perspectives, this documentary examines the harsh realities behind the mounting water crisis. Learn how politics, pollution and human rights are intertwined in this important issue that affects every being on Earth. With water drying up around the world and the future of human lives at stake, the film urges a call to arms before more of our most precious natural resource evaporates.
Director and cast
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Top critics, in their words
All of Salina's interviews and data tell a graphic story about corporate water piracy, the complicity of governments, the burden put on the poor and the scam of bottled water. But she can't quite jam it all in and still have a film that, well, flows.
As if we didn't have enough to worry about.
Salina's film might have been stronger had it not tried to cover so many water-related issues. But there's no denying its power.
Flow makes the case against the privatization of water, which is happening in gazillions of impoverished communities around the world, not to mention North American backyards.
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