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The Water Front

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Producer(s)	Curtis Smith, Yvonne Welbon
Director(s)	Liz Miller
Release Date	2007
Work In Progress	n
Runtime	53 min
Youth Media	n
Educational Materials	Yes

Film Description

What if you lived by the largest body of fresh water in the world but could no longer afford to use it?

So begins Liz Miller’s new documentary, The Water Front, which follows one of the first water battles playing out in the United States from an environmental justice perspective.

Residents of Highland Park, known as the birthplace of the auto-industry, have received water bills as high as $10,000; they have had their water turned off, their homes foreclosed, and are in the midst of a fight to keep their water from becoming privatized. The Water Front follows one woman’s struggle to organize a grassroots campaign to keep her home and defend affordable water as a basic human right. The film is an unnerving indication of what is in store for cities around the world facing an impending global water crisis.

This film is the one-hour version of Water Warriors, part of the sixth annual Media That Matters Film Festival.

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Last Updated On:	May 22, 2012