Flow - For Love of Water

Documentary Film 'Flow' Sounds Alarm on Worldwide Water Shortage
VOA News
Penelope Poulou
Sept. 30, 2008

Oil shortages, global warming, air pollution. These are front-page issues these days. But there is another shortage we rarely hear about: water. In her documentary, "Flow - For the Love of Water," filmmaker Irena Salina delivers a wake-up call on the world's diminished water supply. VOA's Penelope Poulou has more.

"For the longest time, people have taken water for granted," says Peter Gleick, President of the Pacific Institute. "Most people don't think where water comes from. They just turn on the tap and they expect it to be there. Those days are ending."

Gleick is one of many experts in Irena Salina's documentary sounding the alarm about the dwindling water supply.

With a skeleton crew and a shoe-string budget, Salina traveled around the world to film shrinking rivers and lakes.

In just over an hour, she presents stark pictures of massive droughts, heavily polluted rivers, poor rural communities living off contaminated water. The film shows pesticides and herbicides polluting waters. Industrial waste seeping into rivers and lakes. International corporations privatizing massive bodies of water. Salina says once this water was available to everyone. Now it is harvested and sold in markets for a price."

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View the trailor for Irene Salina's film documentary "Flow-For Love of Water" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGd9D4J0lag.