Flow Documentary

FLOW Documentary

About the Film

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.*

          *Source www.flowthefilm.com

Watch the trailer here! http://www.flowthefilm.com/trailer

 

Did You Know?

  • Of the 6 billion people on earth, 1.1 billion do not have access to safe, clean drinking water.(www.charitywater.org)
  • The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency currently does not regulate 51 known water contaminants. (www.foodandwaterwatch.org)
  • The water and sanitation crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns.(www.water.org)
  • According to the National Resources Defense Council, in a scientific study in which more than 1,000 bottles of 103 brands of water were tested, about one-third of the bottles contained synthetic organic chemicals,         bacteria, and arsenic. (www.nrdc.org)
  •  Water is a $400 billion dollar global industry; the third largest behind electricity and oil. (CBS News, FLOW)
  • There are estimates that from five hundred thousand to seven million people get sick per year from drinking tap water. Erik Olson, Deputy Staff Director of Barbara Boxerʼs Environmental and Public Works Committee (EPW),  FLOW.  
  • There are over 116,000 human-made chemicals that are finding their way into public water supply systems.
    William Marks, author of Water Voices from Around the World, FLOW.