Flow: For Love of Water
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  • Summary: Irena Salina's documentary investigates 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. (Oscilloscope Pictures)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 9 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. Charlotte Observer
    Reviewed by: Lawrence Toppman
    88
    This documentary makes a terrible kind of sense. It reminds us that something we take for granted, like air, can be sold to us – if we can afford it. And if we can't, what happens then?
  2. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: G. Allen Johnson
    75
    A very effective primer of an underreported problem.
  3. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    75
    According to Irene Salina's eye-opening documentary Flow, 500,000 to 7 million US residents are sickened by tap water each year.
  4. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Justin Lowe
    60
    Insistent, sometimes conspicuously one-sided, the film's concerns are difficult to dismiss, considering that a water-starved planet isn't ultimately viable.

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  1. BruceD.
    8
    Builds a strong case for the conservation and preservation of water as a free resource for the world. Its warning against corporate ownership of water as a saleable commodity is stark. Overstuffed with information as it is, it fails to mention at all the disappearing Great Aquifer of the midwestern U.S., a strange ommission for a film of this scope.… Expand
  2. JayH.
    6
    Fair documentary, it's interesting but it does get repetitive and it isn't out of the ordinary. Well filmed, good interviews. It doesn't always convince however.… Expand

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