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Actors:	Malcolm McDowell, Maude Barlow, Vandana Shiva, Tony Clarke, Oscar Olivera
Format:	Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Director:	Sam Bozzo
Release Date:	2009-04-07
Aspect Ratio:	1.33:1
Audience Rating:	NR (Not Rated)
Category:	DVD
Label/Manufacturer:	PBS (DIRECT)
UPC:	841887010214

Product Description

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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Rated

on 2010-09-02

Very good documentary about the important of water and the business & politics related to water.

Fortunately, there are now technologies that can make water from air. There is a technology that can make water from air using only the sun energy that is sustainable & efficient. A company AquaScience is already making water from air with humidity as low as 14% but it is not with renewable energy. Google search "Water from Air" and you can see the many technologies available to make water from air.

In regard to coastal cities around the world, there has always been water desalination technologies using Reverse Osmosis and recently Nuclear Desalination. Reverse Osmosis is energy intensive so economically it is not very attractive source of water. A better option would be a Hybrid Desalination system using Electrodialysis & Reverse Osmosis combine by EET Corp. that uses 70% less energy than Reverse Osmosis alone. A superior option would be Solar Desalination technologies where the sun energy is use to turn ocean water to water vapor. The water vapor is then condense back to liquid water using a fraction of the energy use by reverse osmosis. The best option would be Nuclear Desalination using Waste Heat from a nuclear reactor, that is free, to Desalinate water.

Technologies are available to help us with our water need. Whether or not we will choose to use it is another question. The politic of water is a complicated matter that technologies have no control over

Rated

on 2010-08-27

I'm watching this in the context of reading and reviewing twelve books on water before I leave Guatemala. Having read Marq de Villier's book, Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource several years ago, and more recently The Water Atlas: A Unique Visual Analysis of the World's Most Critical Resource, this movie is a collage. I recollect Human Footprint and The 11th Hour as better films but this one is focused and I am coming down on a five rating.

The tid-bits are certainly a pleasure to watch....

+ Pumping 15 times more water out of ground than going in
+ Sewage coming back into the food, especially vegetables, via groundwater pollution
+ Malaysia has imposed the death penalty on anyone polluting water
+ Cities can fall into hollowed out underground aquifers
+ Focus on how we are building housing that is out of synch with what local water can support
+ Focus on dams and other measures as changing the hydrocycle and destroying watersheds
+ Water privatization is the major disruptive and corrupting force right now--world-wide
+ Margaret Thatcher gave away England's water and set stage for global campaign to "own" and "sell" water
+ World Bank is in cahoots with water companies, including privatization of water as a condition for debt relief
+ Clearly time to shove back on "the Quad" (US, Canada, EU, Japan)
+ Suicides are a major side-effect of drought
+ Water privatization IS colonialism
+ First thing companies do (after bribing politicians) is to slash the workforce and lose the local memory
+ Then they raise rates and cut services (as well as safety of water)
+ Corruption is endemic at the state and province levels, and often for trivial amounts
+ Coca-Cola and Nestle come out as the new face of colonialism
+ Major players with terrible records are hiding behind new names, new brands, no change in corruption
+ Fifteen stock indices for water
+ Changes in governments turn contracts for export of water upside down
+ Desalination is a more stable solution BUT creates its own energy and pollution side-effects
+ 87 major corporate players in the water business including General Electric
+ They profit from dirty water
+ Millenium Goals over-looked entire issue of polluted water and who owns the plants, the products, and the pollution
+ Bottle of water $2.00, tap water less than a penny for the same amount
+ US legal framework gives corporations same standing as citizens--they also abuse legal counter-attacks
+ New term "hydrostitute" (prostituted hydrologist)
+ Wisconsin beat them, Michigan is making huge mistakes--if water is shipped it does not return to its basin
+ Supreme Court in late 1800's held Great Lakes to be a public trust that could not be privatized
+ Great T-Shirt: "My Mom Eats Transnationals for Breakfast"
+ 210 million gallons a year being shipped by various means
+ Contest for water heating up between "city people and real people" as corporations try to buy/rent farms
+ Virtual water/embedded water discussed, agribusiness is a huge stake in the heart of local ecology
+ 120 liters for a dozen roses--need many more examples
+ World Bank demanding that poor countries with low water export it to cover debt, this is being called murder and theft
+ Assassinations of water activists have occurred (e.g. Kenya)
+ Choice: cholera water from river or pay for clean water ("can only afford two flushes a month")--state pays for illness!

WAY COOL: Ryan Hreljac $70 will buy a well. 10 steps versus 10,000 steps. Ryan's Well has raised money to fund 266 projects helping a half million people. I've heard about the Twitter fund-raising that does $250 wells, with proof on the web very quickly of accomplishment.

+ Export crops--cash crops--are for national foreign exchange, but not in the public interest
+ Lawrence Summers testified to Senate, US corporations get 1.30 back from every 1.00 in foreign aid
+ Fair trade rather than free trade is what the indigenous peoples want and need
+ The Western system creates losers, that is the system that has to be taken on

Minute 59: Begin Water Wars

+ Theft of water from clouds via cloud seeding now popular
+ When the water system does not work, the civilization crashes
+ So many water wars are presented as religious or ethnic conflict, this is not correct
+ Governments put military on side of corporations
+ Brazil, Canada, Russia already treating water as a strategic asset & planning protection
+ World wide water channels are being militarized
+ Bolivia a case study of public finally getting government to kick Bechtel out for its criminal behavior
+ Huge resorvoirs can become stagnant and mercury concentrations rise--ground water does not have this issue
+ Local control of growth can take years in court, but it can be done--live within limits of watersheds
+ America could save 25% or more of its water
+ Constitutional Amendments are the model--establish right to water
+ World Social Forum worthy and worth keeping an eye on
+ Small town mayors being convicted and sent to jail

Bottom line: know your water source, ask the questions, be active for future generations

Rated

on 2010-08-19

The bottom line is we CAN do something as long as we DO some basic things NOW. But, if we continue with our cavalier and arrogant attitude toward water, we will be no different than the poor soul that writes more checks than the deposits will support. Arguably, we could live much better and longer without money than we could without water.

This film reveals a flaw in the way we use water. And, it's a flaw that threatens to end whole societies. There are a few companies that are vilified; Coke and Nestle are surprises to me. I hope they're wrong or that these companies literally and sincerely repent. Politicians are pointed to with the same intent--some for out and out corruption, others for seeing what is ahead and trying to "hedge" the "water market."

Others have said this is an important film. I agree. I'm in a place where I can do something. Small, yes, but something.

Rated

on 2010-08-03

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.

Rated

on 2010-07-13

Right from the beginning of this documentary, the mood is set with a chilling voice that says "This isn't about saving the environment, it's about saving ourselves." It then throws a few more chilling things in about dehydration (like crying blood) and mentions that the Earth is "desertifying". After watching this spine tingling introduction I asked myself, "Well, where is the water going?"

The explanation that is given through the rest of the documentary may make you clench your fists. It's not the sun's rays, it's not depletion of the ozone layer, it's not too many animals drinking it all up, it's not a worldwide drought. It's people. Corporate greed, government corruption, water trucking, etc. Rather than spill all of the details, check this out, it's a real eye opener and well worth while.

Mike Saxton, Author of "7 Scorpions: Rebellion"

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