Blue Gold: World Water Wars

It's not the money. It's the power.

Sam Bozzo / USA, Canada / 2008 / 90 min

In every corner of the globe, we are polluting, diverting, pumping, and wasting our limited supply of fresh water at an expediential level as population and technology grows. The rampant overdevelopment of agriculture, housing and industry increase the demands for fresh water well beyond the finite supply, resulting in the desertification of the earth.

Corporate giants force developing countries to privatize their water supply for profit. Wall Street investors target desalination and mass bulk water export schemes. Corrupt governments use water for economic and political gain. Military control of water emerges and a new geo-political map and power structure forms, setting the stage for world water wars.

We follow numerous worldwide examples of people fighting for their basic right to water, from court cases to violent revolutions to U.N. conventions to revised constitutions to local protests at grade schools. As Maude Barlow proclaims, “This is our revolution, this is our war”. A line is crossed as water becomes a commodity. Will we survive?

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2008 Winner, Vancouver International Film Festival, Audience Choice for Best Environmental Film
2008 Winner, Newport Beach Film Festival, Best Documentary
2009, Winner, CINE Competition, Documentary Feature

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