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Blue Gold: World Water Wars

  • 20082008
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  • 1h 30m
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Blue Gold: World Water Wars (2008)
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Wars of the future will be fought over water as they are over oil today, as the source of human survival enters the global marketplace and political arena. Corporate giants, private investor... Read allWars of the future will be fought over water as they are over oil today, as the source of human survival enters the global marketplace and political arena. Corporate giants, private investors, and corrupt governments vie for control of our dwindling supply, prompting protests, la... Read allWars of the future will be fought over water as they are over oil today, as the source of human survival enters the global marketplace and political arena. Corporate giants, private investors, and corrupt governments vie for control of our dwindling supply, prompting protests, lawsuits, and revolutions from citizens fighting for the right to survive. Past civilization... Read all
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    • Director
      • Samuel Vartek
    • Writers
      • Maude Barlow(book)
      • Tony Clarke(book)
      • Samuel Vartek(narration)
    • Stars
      • Jim Olson
      • Tony Clarke
      • Maude Barlow
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    • Director
      • Samuel Vartek
    • Writers
      • Maude Barlow(book)
      • Tony Clarke(book)
      • Samuel Vartek(narration)
    • Stars
      • Jim Olson
      • Tony Clarke
      • Maude Barlow
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    • 17User reviews
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    • Awards
      • 4 wins & 1 nomination

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    Jim Olson
    Jim Olson
    • Self - Environmental Attorney
    Tony Clarke
    Tony Clarke
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    Maude Barlow
    Maude Barlow
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    Octavio Rosas Lando
    Octavio Rosas Lando
    • Self - CASIFOP
    Eduardo Hernando Halez
    Eduardo Hernando Halez
    • Self - Mexico City Water Works Union
    Robert Glennon
    Robert Glennon
    • Self - Author
    Ryan Schwebach
    Ryan Schwebach
    • Self - New Mexico Farmer
    Michael Kravcik
    Michael Kravcik
    • Self
    Vandana Shiva
    Vandana Shiva
    • Self - Author
    Peter Warshall
    Peter Warshall
    • Self
    • (as Dr. Peter Warshall)
    Helen Sarakinos
    Helen Sarakinos
    • Self
    Wenonah Hauter
    Wenonah Hauter
    • Self
    Kyang Hae Lee
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Clair Muller
    Clair Muller
    • Self - Atlanta City Council
    Oliver Hoedmann
    • Self
    Raymond Aurillier
    Raymond Aurillier
    • Self
    Harry Ott
    Harry Ott
    • Self
    Daniel Vermeer
    Daniel Vermeer
    • Self
    • Director
      • Samuel Vartek
    • Writers
      • Maude Barlow(book)
      • Tony Clarke(book)
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    • Trivia
      Samuel Vartek won the camera he used to shoot this film when his short film Holiday on the Moon (1994) won the TriggerStreet.com Film Festival. Kevin Spacey presented Sam the camera at the Toronto Film Festival and said "Go make another film". 'Blue Gold' is the result.
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      Wenonah Hauter: In the U.S., the largest amount of groundwater is being used for agriculture. And you really have to deal with agriculture to solve our water problems.

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    5/10
    Whose water is it anyway?
    Water is the new oil, apparently - a vital commodity, in dwindling supply, controlled by corporate business, so tightly that the people of Bolivia were recently threatened with jail for collecting rainwater. Until the government drove out the big bad barons, that is.

    If you're wanting a pantomime version of our global ecosystem, this is the one, every cliché firmly in place. It starts in the first seconds, with a stock image of parched and cracked soil, a slow dripping-sound, and Malcolm McDowell announcing that "whoever goes without water for a week cries blood." To give him his due, McDowell has matured into quite a good voiceover artist, almost mistakeable for Richard Burton. But this does not make the message any more credible.

    It is basically that water is a human right, that should be administered by 'the people' or the United Nations, and not the ruthless, corrupt private sector. We are encouraged to feel that water belongs to everyone, rather like the Native Americans who couldn't get their mind round the ownership of land. We hear the startling claim that corporate business is 'not subject to clear-cut performance requirements', which is, of course, the standard weakness of the public sector and the charities, providing all manner of temptations when money is left lying around.

    If, like myself, you are liable to develop hydrology fatigue, you can assess the main arguments quite effectively by just sizing-up the human types you're looking at, like bored constituents at an election rally. Every professional hippie-rebel is here, with their standard cries, of which "We the people must become the water guardians of the 21st century" is entirely typical.

    The solutions, when they arrive near the end, are just too irritatingly naïve. Turn off the tap while you brush your teeth... Don't have a lawn... This is kindergarden-logic, as though the whole world is a well-run classroom. But then comes a surprise. The small town of Bolinas, California, has had a true brainwave. No new houses to be built, no more population to be encouraged, beyond the capacity of the water-supply. At long last, a breath of common-sense. Rights carry responsibilities. Instead of demanding clean water as a human right, you go to where the water is clean, if you want to raise a family. But alas, Bolinas is depressingly alone in its wisdom, a strange recluse-village that can only be reached by unmarked roads, and dismissed as yet another kookie Californian experiment.
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      • January 16, 2010 (Japan)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Blue Gold: Life for Sale
    • Filming locations
      • Brazil
    • Production company
      • Purple Turtle Films
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      1 hour 30 minutes
    • Color
      • Color

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