Trailer | FLOW

Sweet, this came out on DVD in the US yesterday.

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.

This (among other things) makes me wish I could afford to buy some land with a well. I can live without many of my comforts if it comes down to it, but not without clean water, food and air. We need to protect our precious resources, not exploit them. I'm all for technology that helps us use our resources more efficiently.
The world is waiting for us to shift our priorities, I hope it is not to late.

it is beyond me that we can have a water crisis when our planet is mostly water. Looks to me more like an education crisis.

I will be looking for this movie when it comes out. Thanks, wholefreespirit!

This will be the next thing to fight a war over. Who owns the water, and who gets to have some of it.

I can't wait to see it

Does this story have a hidden adjenda? Western States have been looking for new sources of water. One of those sources of water is the Great Lakes. Canada and Great Lakes do not want to pipe water to California.

The reason for this if you drain the Great Lakes, then there will no longer be any Great Lakes. The ecology, and climate of the Great Lakes will change.

Actually the question should read, should the Rich have a right to radically change eco-systems, because they live in California.

I live in Pittsburgh. We had one drought in 1988. It was the worst drought in 100 years. All we did was limit the amount of water we sent down the Ohio. Actually, we did not need to ration.

Maybe if we did not have such a large concentration in California, then the water problem would not be as great. In 1950, Pennsylvania was the 2nd most populated state in the union. We lost a lot of people to California.

Mark Twain said, California always has enough water to fight over, that was over 100 years ago. Maybe we should let California provide water for itself, like Pennsylvania does.

The situation is very simple. In the 50's Pennsylvania lost population California because of it's sun shine. Maybe California will lose population to Pennsylvania because of it's water.

Read Thom Hartmann's { Last hours of ancient sunlight} in that book written 10 years ago he talks alot
about water, and our other resources. It's a very good read.

I'm serious, one way of helping is to go to the distributor (Oscilloscope Pictures) YouTube page and bump up the number of views. Tell others to watch the trailer there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGd9D4J0lag

@damnneargenius .. and not only

I can not wait for the Divine intervention that there is or not ..

because if there is:
I must resolve this problem with my strength ..
if there is:
then I remember who gave me free will,
freedom,
if intervenes denies my freedom ...
For these reasons we must fall on each of us the responsibility ... what happens ...
humans who are not free can become
is not be an alibi...

Salut et Fraternité

The human condition is apparently evil if not retarded as a whole.

We invent the technology to provide running water and civilization thrives until a handful of people try to use it for control? You must be fucking kidding.

If there is a God, I hope he gets really pissed at the people that are messing up his Earth life experiment type thing.

That the water is essential to life
is a principle noted to all
but not known at all

Salut et Fraternité

I'm in.

PLEASE sign the petition:

http://article31.org/

and pass this on!!!!

Oscilloscope (the film's distributor) really needs the YouTube numbers bumped up. Please go to the link below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGd9D4J0lag

ahhh yes, one chapter in the history of colonialism in Africa started with the British government building railroads and wells. When the African laborers building the railroads attempted to strike for better wages and working conditions, the colonizers responded by taking their water away, and bringing them to their knees.

this latest, of course, is on a global scale, and it is unconscionable, but we make a grave mistake when we expect corporations to behave with conscience towards humanity...corporations are not human, and our laws have been distorted to treat them as if they are.

Great post, thank you for putting this up.

Everyone should see this. Too bad so many don't really know or care. I believe they are in for a rude awakening.