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Three Qs and the Truth: Flow

Published on December 1, 2009

Three Qs and the Truth is a bi-weekly series highlighting the best in social-issue media. Curated by Kasmore Rhedrick, Web Editor.

Flow

Who: Directed by Irena Salina

What: Flow is 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.

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, while begging the question: “can anyone really own water?”

Beyond identifying the problem, Flow also gives viewers a look at the people and institutions providing practical solutions to the water crisis and those developing new technologies, which are fast becoming blueprints for a successful global and economic turnaround.

Where: Now playing in select theaters. The DVD is also available for purchase

Truth: “Of the 6 billion people on earth, 1.1 billion do not have access to safe, clean drinking water. While the average American uses 150 gallons of water per day, those in developing countries cannot find five” - Charity:Water.

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