Documentary: FLOW - For the Love of Water by Irena Salina

Cliff B.
4 reviews
Send Message | Add to Friends

Water Rights and Groundwater Abuse....FLOW pulls back the covers

FLOW starts out with a bang. The Swiss company Syngenta (think Euro-Monsanto) produces Atrazine, a weed killer. The E-U has banned it. America sprays 80 million pounds a year on our corn and soy crops. It is a possible gender-bender for frogs and carcinogen. Remember it when you have you non-organic tofu, cornflakes, cornchips, or high fructose corn syrup. It can take 9 months to break down and some degredations of it do nasty things to the ground water table. If the EPA will not ban it, then you might look at their website: http://www.epa.gov/ogwdw/dwh/c-soc/atrazine.html. They do an amazing dance in admitting the danger, yet letting it continue.

The movie goes all around the world, with a few bright spots of local ingenuity to solve their water problems. In general, the corporate monies are sacking the world water supplies as in a gold rush, Blue Gold, in their terms. The poor come out worst, as usual, and the rich deny it all.
In some counties, you are told to only drink bottled products to protect yourself from bad water. After this movie, you will never allow that thought to cross your mind again.

Topics that we might have valued as positive, like the World Bank bringing clean water to poor countries, or reliable products like Coke and Pepsi, will never be the same.

Not only are there questions as to what is coming out of your tap, the bottled water is often worse. If this is just too hard to believe, then go get yourself a non-organic popcorn, a Perrier or Coke and watch the movie.

Cliff's keywords: creation care water pesticide ddt world bank poverty water crisis coke corn soy blue gold