Blue Gold: World Water Wars

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"Clean water should not be corporatised for profit."
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An enlightening film that highlights the danger of corporatising essential services. It also points out that public opposition, people power, can be effective in bringing some of these un-ethical companies into line. It also highlights the fact that the corporatising of essential services is never successful in reducing costs. We are also made aware of the vulnerablity of our (world wide) small supply of clean water to pollution from industry, agriculture and other human activity. As a society, we take the availability of clean drinking water for granted; this film goes a long way toward pointing this out, and the need to conserve our major underground aquifers.

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THE WAR OVER YOUR WATER IS ABOUT TO BEGIN…

In every corner of the globe, we are polluting, diverting, pumping, and wasting our limited supply of fresh water at an expediential level as population and technology grows. The rampant over development of agriculture, housing and industry increase the demands for fresh water well beyond the finite supply, resulting in the desertification of the earth.

Corporate giants force developing countries to privatize their water supply for profit. Wall Street investors target desalination and mass bulk water export schemes. Corrupt governments use water for economic and political gain. Military control of water emerges and a new geopolitical map and power structure forms, setting the stage for world water wars. We follow numerous worldwide examples of people fighting for their basic right to water, from court cases to violent revolutions to U.N. conventions to revised constitutions to local protests at grade schools. As Maude Barlow proclaims, “This is our revolution, this is our war”. A line is crossed as water becomes a commodity. Will we survive?

“Sounds the same sweeping alarms as Inconvenient Truth, only about our dwindling water supplies” - TORONTO STAR
Release date NZ
August 2nd, 2010
Movie Format
DVD Region
  • Region 4
Aspect Ratio
  • 1.33 : 1
Language
English
Length (Minutes)
90
Supported Audio
  • Dolby Digital Surround 2.0
Genre
Original Release Year
2008
Box Dimensions (mm)
135x190x10
UPC
9328511018590
Product ID
7386153

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