To mark the international observance of World Water Day, we watched 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.
The French-born filmmaker spent five years interviewing experts, activists and corporate representatives about topics affecting both poorer countries, such as the deadly lack of safe drinking water and the polarizing privatization of the water supply, and wealthier ones like the United States, where scarcity is a growing concern and where the bottled-water craze continues despite very little regulation and environmental concerns.
The film is unabashedly anti-privatization, decrying contracts massive companies like Nestle, Veolia Environnement (spun off from Vivendi) and Suez Environnement have to distribute drinking water in countries such as Bolivia and South Africa. These firms, the argument goes, have a primary interest in profit, not in ensuring safe and affordable access to water.
This movie will change the way you think about bottled water in a big way!
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Can anyone actually own water?
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I haven't seen or heard of that film, but I thought you might be interested in this article. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_25/b4089040017753.htm T. Boone Pickens is investing in water the way he once invested in oil and at the cost of Dallas residents like me. So I ask the same question, is it ethical for him to own water, a resource that every living thing needs to survive?
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