FLOW: FOR THE LOVE OF WATER

Dir. Irena Salina | 2007 | USA | 90 min. | Documentary

Irena Salina's award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis.

Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel.

Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the water grab, while begging the question "CAN ANYONE REALLY OWN WATER?"

Beyond identifying the problem, FLOW also gives viewers a look at the people and institutions providing practical solutions to the water crisis and those developing new technologies, which are fast becoming blueprints for a successful global and economic turnaround.

"A documentary and a three-alarm warning, Flow dives into our planet’s most essential resource — and third-largest industry — to find pollution, scarcity, human suffering and corporate profit. And that’s just in the United States... From the dubious quality of our tap water (possibly laced with rocket fuel) to the terrifyingly unpoliced contents of bottled brands (one company pumped from the vicinity of a Superfund site), the movie ruthlessly dismantles our assumptions about water safety and government oversight." New York Times

PANEL DISCUSSION - Wed Jan 14 at 8:30 PM

Following the screening of FLOW: FOR THE LOVE OF WATER on January 14, a panel of Winnipeg professionals including Sacha Kopelow from the Manitoba Eco Network Water Caucus, Lynne Fernandez of the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives, and Mike Davidson, spokeman with CUPE, will discuss the issues such as how water privitization could affect Winnipeggers and the dangers.

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