[HeckuvaJob]

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After watching this movie I'm ready to lead the campaign to create our sister site: PeakWater.com I've quoted the NYT's review below so I'll just add a few thoughts of my own.

the Great Lakes may be our nation's most under appreciated treasure and should be protected at all costs
Bible fans will be thrilled to see an actual river of blood
bottled water is the SUV of beverages, but not as eco-friendly
maybe golf courses and ranching have no place in our southwest deserts
I'm switching to luke-warm baths
I'm going to start hoarding activated charcoal
new slogan for The World Bank, Funding Evil Since 1944
new slogan for Nestle, Serving Evil Since 1867

See this movie.

From New York Times review:$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '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.

Yet Irena Salina’s astonishingly wide-ranging film is less depressing than galvanizing, an informed and heartfelt examination of the tug of war between public health and private interests. From the dubious quality of our tap water (possibly laced with rocket fuel) to the terrifyingly un-policed 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.

Still reeling, we’re given a distressing glimpse of regions embroiled in bitter battles against privatization. In South Africa, villagers drink from stagnant ponds, unable to pay for the water that once was free, and protesters in Bolivia (where waste from a slaughterhouse is dumped into Lake Titicaca) brave gunfire to demand unrestricted access to potable water.

And lest we begin to comfort ourselves with first-world distance, Ms. Salina cleverly frames this section with the protracted conflict between the residents of Mecosta County, Michigan, and the gluttonous demands of a Nestle bottling plant.

Naming names and identifying culprits (hello, World Bank), “Flow” is designed to awaken the most somnolent consumer. At the very least it should make you think twice before you take that (unfiltered) shower.

[coyote]

Peak oil will be the appetizer, and global heating will make everything worse - but water scarcity will be the defining issue of the twenty-first century.

Possibly the twenty-second, as well.

[HeckuvaJob]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('coyote', '-') but water scarcity will be the defining issue of the twenty-first century. Possibly the twenty-second, as well.

[WildRose]

I watched this video today; it was very well done.

I loved listening to the activists from all around the globe - so many intelligent, thoughtful people, from even
the poorest, most remote communities. I guess the video served as a reminder to me that we
have to force the change, we have to make ourselves heard so that these companies (Suez, Nestle, etc.)
will no longer be able to claim this precious resource as their own and sell it back to people at
exorbitant prices they have no hope in Hell of affording.

[Ludi]

http://www.harvestingrainwater.com/

[WildRose]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'h')ttp://www.harvestingrainwater.com/