Our collective love affair with oil pales in comparison with our love affair with water, as the just-released documentary 'FLOW - For the Love of Water' shows us in a very direct and often disturbing fashion.  At the San Diego premier showing on September 15, the audience at the San Diego Natural History Museum was presented with a sobering expose of the corporate abuse of our most precious of natural resources: Water.

The film delves into important and familiar policy issues -- impending water shortages, the toxic pollutants in our water, the dearth of political leadership -- however, the film was by no means preaching to the choir that night.  Graphic protrayals of the growing water cartel menace, and the profound despair that millions of impoverished humans suffer at the hands of those in government and industry who are controlling our water sources, left many in attendance speachless.  This author did not sleep well that night.

So before you buy that next bottle of so-called 'pure mountain spring water', or turn the lawn sprinklers on to your Southern California lawn -- see FLOW: For the Love of Water.  When your mayor speaks to you of voluntary water conservation measures in your community, but lacks the political will to establish mandatory conservation measures -- tell her/him to see FLOW: For the Love of Water.  When you think 'ocean desalination' -- think FLOW: For the Love of Water.  And the next time you turn your tap to experience the fresh, clear, chlorinated and rocket-fuel contaminated water -- remember the world-wide water tragedy that is befalling the human race now, then go sign sign the petition to add a 31st article to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, establishing access to clean water as a fundamental human right.

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Flow the Film - Film home page

Food and Water Watch - The premier water rights organization: Food & Water Watch is a nonprofit consumer organization that works to ensure clean water and safe food. We challenge the corporate control and abuse of our food and water resources by empowering people to take action and by transforming the public consciousness about what we eat and drink.

 Read the book that inspired the movie!

Blue Covenant
The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water 

An Inconvenient Truth of water.

“Imagine a world in twenty years, in which no substantive progress has been made to provide basic wastewater service in the Third World, or to force industry and industrial agriculture production to stop polluting water systems, or to curb the mass movement of water by pipeline, tanker and other diversion, which will have created huge new swaths of desert."

“Desalination plants will ring the world’s oceans, many of them run by nuclear power; corporate nanotechnology will clean up sewage water and sell it to private utilities who will sell it back to us at a huge profit; the rich will drink only bottled water found in the few remote parts of the world left or sucked from the clouds by machines, while the poor die in increasing numbers. This is not science fiction. This is where the world is headed unless we change course.”

— Maude Barlow