Flow: For Love of Water (2008)

Water is the very essence of life, sustaining every being on the planet. 'Flow' confronts the disturbing reality that our crucial resource is dwindling and greed just may be the cause.

Director:

Irena Salina

Stars:

Bill Alexander, Maude Barlow, Basil Bold

1 win & 1 nomination.

Cast

Credited cast:
Bill Alexander	...	Himself - Thames Water
Maude Barlow	...	Herself - Author, Blue Gold
Basil Bold	...	Himself - Managing Director, Invensys Metering Systems
Shelly Brime	...	Herself
Anthony Burgmans	...	Himself
Kent Butler	...	Himself - University of Texas (as Dr. Kent Butler)
Michel Camdessus	...	Himself - Former Director, International Monetary Fund
Charles-Louis de Maud'huy	...	Himself - Vivendi Environmentalist
Ashwin Desai	...	Himself - Author, We are the Poor
Siddharaj Dhadda	...	Himself - Gandhian Leader
Shripad Dharmadhikary	...	Himself
Antoine Frerot	...	Himself - Vivendi Water
Ashok Gadgil	...	Himself - Senior Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peter H. Gleick	...	Himself - Co-Founder and President, Pacific Institute
Wenonah Hauter	...	Herself - Executive Director, Food & Water Watch

Storyline

Water is the very essence of life, sustaining every being on the planet. 'Flow' confronts the disturbing reality that our crucial resource is dwindling and greed just may be the cause.

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Plot Keywords:

environmental issues | water contamination | 

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Taglines:

How did a handful of corporations steal our water?

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Genres:

Documentary

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

15 December 2011 (Croatia)

Also Known As:

Flow - Wasser ist Leben

Filming Locations:

Bolivia

Box Office

Budget:

$500,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$3,644, 24 March 2008, Limited Release

Gross USA:

$142,569, 11 December 2008

Company Credits

Production Co:

Steven Starr Productions, The Group Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

93 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Quotes

Jean Luc-Touly - Former 30 Year Accountant Vivendi & Veolia Corp.: 70% of water worldwide is used by agriculture. 20% is used by industry. 10% by us. So it's because of agricultural and industrial users, that we need more and more water to grow things that should not grow in these places. And sure enough, to grow all of this, you need a lot of pesticides and chemicals. And sure enough, all those chemicals with water, in the earth... it's not a good marriage.

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Connections

Features The Third Man (1949)

User Reviews

Eye-opening documentary

I wish everyone would see this movie. It has one simple thesis: there is a drive to privatize water. It supports its thesis with examples and details about those examples with interviews from experts, local people impacted, and even try to involve the companies that are attempting to privatize, with images, with maps,... It also provides easy solutions to the problem of providing water to the people who need it the most. There are a few arguments that are not supported (like the one on chemicals being absorbed through our skin and such,...) by one activist. The main CEOs of those companies refuse to respond to the allegations (because they know they cannot defend what they are doing, they avoid answering the questions). It is a pretty important documentary. One of the most important doc. I have seen in years. People who criticize this doc. on form are so lame. It is not supposed to be a Hollywood movie! I doubt they have the budgets to build ramps to allow smooth filming, for instance.