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  • 2008
  • TV-Y7
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 24 m
  • 2008
  • TV-Y7
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 24 m

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 ...

Directed By: Dan Berger

  • 2008
  • TV-Y7
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 24 m
  • 2008
  • TV-Y7
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 24 m

Flow: For Love of Water

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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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 ...

Directed By: Dan Berger

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Bill Alexander

Self - Thames Water

Maude Barlow

Self - Author, Blue Gold

Basil Bold

Self - Managing Director, Invensys Metering Systems

Shelly Brime

Self

Anthony Burgmans

Self

Kent Butler

Self - University of Texas

Michel Camdessus

Self - Former Director, International Monetary Fund

Charles-Louis de Maud'huy

Self - Vivendi Environmentalist

Ashwin Desai

Self - Author, We are the Poor

Siddharaj Dhadda

Self - Gandhian Leader

Shripad Dharmadhikary

Self

Antoine Frerot

Self - Vivendi Water

Ashok Gadgil

Self - Senior Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Peter H. Gleick

Self - Co-Founder and President, Pacific Institute

Wenonah Hauter

Self - Executive Director, Food & Water Watch

Tyrone Hayes

Self - Biologist, University of California, Berkeley

David Hemson

Self - Research Director, Human Sciences Research Council, South America

Pamela Hill

Self - Bottled Water Restaurant Patron

William Joseph Hill

Self - Bottled Water Restaurant Patron

Penn Jillette

Self - Magician

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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18% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
67
82% Positive
9 Reviews
18% Mixed
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0% Negative
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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?
By Lawrence Toppman FULL REVIEW
75
According to Irene Salina's eye-opening documentary Flow, 500,000 to 7 million US residents are sickened by tap water each year.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW
75
Skips right past depressing on its way to apocalyptic.
By Nathan Rabin FULL REVIEW
70
A smartly done, involving look at a number of interrelated water issues.
By Kenneth Turan FULL REVIEW
67
It's strange thinking of water as a market commodity, and it's hard to comprehend the kind of greed that must go into keeping it from needy mouths, but, fact is, the water business is now the world's third-largest industry, meaning there are a lot of sinister souls out there fiddling with their bank statements while Rome dries up.
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63
Flow preaches to the choir with a starry-eyed NPR eco-humanism that can set the wrong kind of person's teeth on edge.
By Ty Burr FULL REVIEW
40
Flow makes you thirsty for more information.
By Joe Neumaier FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Steven Starr Productions, The Group Entertainment
Release Date Sep 12, 2008
Duration 1 h 24 m
Rating TV-Y7
Genres
Tagline How did a handful of corporations steal our water?
Website http://www.flowthefilm.com/
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Awards

Vail Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Cinema for Peace Awards
• 1 Nomination

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