Blue Gold: World Water Wars

Blue Gold: World Water Wars Review

The main item to take away from this movie is the continued greed and exploitation of corporations. Private companies are buying up water rights all over the world and it does not appear that they are investing a great deal of money into water conservation. Some of those water rights were sold by corrupt officials who were later jailed. With the owning of governments by corporations, they can pretty much get away with anything and do whatever they want. This is the #1 issue we have today.

Apart from the issue of corporations buying all the worlds fresh water the one part that stood out for me is where Nestle was allowed to go into Michigan, use up 200/gallons of water a minute to be used on bottled water to be shipped out of state. How can it be allowed for a private company to purchase the rights to consume massive amounts of water and then take it out of state?. What happens when the water is gone? Farewell MI and thanks for all the fish..

There will be wars fought in the future over water. There is no doubt about that. I think even within the US there are going to be more tensions between states. There is only so many people that this planet can substain and we have problems with 6 billion today, what will it be like with 9 billion? How are corporations going to restrict water in the future? How long before the first arrest and prosecution is made for someone stealing water..

As great as I thought this movie to be, there is no real (workable) solutions presented other than full scale revolt as they documented in Bolivia when the people took to the streets to protest the owning of their water supply and subsequent high prices and bad supply.

Blue Gold: World Water Wars Overview

This award winning documentary directed by Sam Bozzo is based on the book BLUE GOLD: THE FIGHT TO STOP THE CORPORATE THEFT OF THE WORLD'S WATER by Maude Barlow and Tony Clark. The film examines the problems created by the privatization and commoditization of water. Contains 30 minutes of bonus material, including deleted scenes and an interview with the filmmaker.

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