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Water - Protecting the Essence of Life
Flow: For Love of Water is a powerful film that looks at the privatization of the world's water, the displacement of millions of indigenous people to build dams, control the flow of water, generate electricity, and at those who have benefited and been impoverished through the control of a substance critical to life.
Adam Scow is the California Campaigns Director at Food & Water Watch, a national consumer advocacy organization. He is responsible for developing strategy for local, state, and national campaigns. He currently serves on the planning committee for the annualCalifornia Water Policy Conference sponsored by Public Officials for Water and Environment Reform. Previously, Adam researched California irrigation subsidies and water transfers in Washington D.C..
We look at the major threats to water taking place throughout the world, and in particular the United States, California, and the need for citizen involvement and awareness on every level to safe guard their health, their children, their communities, and the future. In particular we look at the crumbling water infrastructure and need to maintain it, the threat of privatization, fracking, corruption of government officials, the big money pushing big projects for private gain at public expense, bottled water, bottled water industry, desalinization, monitoring water for radioactivity, organizing locally and successfully. If you need help in your community to protect your water Food & Water Watch is a great resource, building a grassroots movment to regain control over vital aspects of our lives.
Other great films on water- Thirst - Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water,Tapped, The Water Front, Liquid Assets, Blue Gold - World Water Wars, and (believe it or not) Chinatown which takes place during the California Water Wars, when Los Angeles got control over Owen's River (emptying Owen's Lake).