Water, me thinks, is probably the biggest issue of all.  I’ve been looking at food for a while and as I start digging deeper into water issues, I’m amazed at just how bad things have gotten.  We’re in bad shape in regards to food.  Our problems are far worse with water.

This is a great film.  It covers the facts of what is happening, who is behind it and what can be done about it.  No surprise to see the main culprits are behind our water problems and the oppression of the world poor (multinational corporations and their politicians, the WTO, IMF and World Bank).  Do your roommates a favor and lay down some plastic before watching this…your head will explode!

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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 overdevelopment 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 geo-political map and power structure forms, setting the stage for world water wars.

This film follows 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?

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