Flow: For Love of Water (2008)
The Group Entertainment

Description

Irena Salina's award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis. Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world s dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel.Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the water grab

Collected reviews and ratings

8.0 DVD Talk | Jeremy Mathews

Flow offers an eye-opening, thought-provoking look into an issue that doesn't receive enough of media attention. This well-crafted and informative documentary is almost guaranteed to change the way you think about the liquid that pours out of your taps every day.
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8.0 Amazon user reviews

This film is a powerful introduction to the issues and conflicts surrounding water, water security and water rights. The film is thoughtful and galvanizing as well as highly informative.
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7.8 DVD Verdict | Daniel MacDonald

Water may well be the greatest crisis humans will face in the twenty-first century, but it will only be solved through realistic and grounded discourse. Flow is guilty of telling only one side of the story.
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7.5 The Onion A.V. Club | Nathan Rabin

Flow sends out a despairing warning that the dystopian worlds of Children Of Men and Waterworld may soon be upon us.
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7.0 Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

As if we didn’t have enough to worry about, the quietly apocalyptic “Flow” makes a good case that what’s going on with our planet’s water supply should make you very, very afraid.
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7.0 New York Times | Jeannette Catsoulis

Irena Salina’s astonishingly wide-ranging film is less depressing than galvanizing, an informed and heartfelt examination of the tug of war between public health and private interests.
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4.0 filmcritic.com | Chris Barsanti

When the world is on the line, it's easy to lose focus. So it is with Irena Salina's crisply-packaged and beautifully photographed but wholly scattered documentary on the worldwide water crisis, Flow.
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