FLOW

In the movie Flow I was again enlighten by many facts about the current water situation. I felt like it was very similar to the way the book Lost Mountain is written. In the movie many people were interviewed and asked about the water situation in their own regions. Many of the people that were interview were poorer people in rural areas just as in Lost Mountain. The movie also showed many interviews with the executives of the large water companies that have been around for a hundred plus years. These companies would come into these smaller communities and take over there water distribution centers and offer clean drinking water for prices that these people are not able to afford. The people are then forced to go down to over polluted streams and rivers to retrieve water. The way that these companies justified there action to charge these prices was that they were being compensated for their knowledge of the water distribution business since they have been at it for so many years. One thing that I found very shocking was the negative aspect that dams are portrayed as having in this movie. The World Bank would fund these new dam projects which would displace 100k if not millions of people. The World Bank, just as the coal mining companies would promise compensation to the communities once the project was done but in the end gave nothing back to the people it displaced. The protection for the World Bank was so great that no one person could sue the company for not getting fairly compensated. I liked how the movie showed some of the cheaper ways that communities can filter their own water supply, like the UV purification system that can be managed and maintained by a single village member. Most of the movie was very eye opening and evoked many of the same emotions that the book has thus far. I would recommend this movie to anyone who would like to learn more about the current water situation.