happytobe
12th May 2011, 01:58
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1j_LO7mrAQ&feature=related
From the website http://flowthefilm.com …
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.
Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel.
Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the water grab, while begging the question "CAN ANYONE REALLY OWN WATER?"
Beyond identifying the problem, FLOW also gives viewers a look at the people and institutions providing practical solutions to the water crisis and those developing new technologies, which are fast becoming blueprints for a successful global and economic turnaround.
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FYI…
I live at the Grand Canyon Village on the South Rim of the Canyon in Arizona, USA. Our water comes principally from snow accumulation on the North Rim of the Canyon which has an elevation of about 8,000 feet (the South Rim is approx. 7,000 feet). The water flows through a pipe by gravity from the Roaring Springs on the North Side of the Canyon to Indian Gardens on the South Side, and is then pumped up to the Village. It is good water and we receive a yearly report on the quality.
The National Park Service had decided to ban the sale of bottled water in the Park and provide free water refilling stations instead, along with inexpensive reusable water containers. This was done because too many plastic bottles were being trashed rather than recycled. Whether or not it was a good idea to preclude Park visitors from buying a cold bottle water on a hot summer's day, I'm not so sure — but local information indicates that the whole progam came to a halt because of the intervention of the Coca Cola Company.
From the website http://flowthefilm.com …
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.
Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel.
Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the water grab, while begging the question "CAN ANYONE REALLY OWN WATER?"
Beyond identifying the problem, FLOW also gives viewers a look at the people and institutions providing practical solutions to the water crisis and those developing new technologies, which are fast becoming blueprints for a successful global and economic turnaround.
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FYI…
I live at the Grand Canyon Village on the South Rim of the Canyon in Arizona, USA. Our water comes principally from snow accumulation on the North Rim of the Canyon which has an elevation of about 8,000 feet (the South Rim is approx. 7,000 feet). The water flows through a pipe by gravity from the Roaring Springs on the North Side of the Canyon to Indian Gardens on the South Side, and is then pumped up to the Village. It is good water and we receive a yearly report on the quality.
The National Park Service had decided to ban the sale of bottled water in the Park and provide free water refilling stations instead, along with inexpensive reusable water containers. This was done because too many plastic bottles were being trashed rather than recycled. Whether or not it was a good idea to preclude Park visitors from buying a cold bottle water on a hot summer's day, I'm not so sure — but local information indicates that the whole progam came to a halt because of the intervention of the Coca Cola Company.