water

THE CORPORATION [18/23] Expansion Plan

Hub Intern — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:20:47 -0700

The beginning of the fight for the world's most important resource: water. In Bolivia, privatization makes water unaffordable for many of its citizens and the resulting protest turns violent when the military opens fire.

Water1st in India, 2007

Hub Intern — Mon, 05 May 2008 11:28:38 -0700

Water 1st International bring safe water to the poorest people on earth.

Drying up Palestine - part 1

gournafilms — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:52:04 -0700

This is the first 'chapter' of Drying up Palestine, a 28-minute documentary on water issues in the occupied West Bank, made by Rima Essa and Peter Snowdon.

Vivienne Bennett on Solutions to the Water Crisis - The Water Front

Chris Michael — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 06:51:15 -0700

Vivienne Bennett, professor and author, shares solutions to the water crisis and highlights the impacts of water privatization.

From The Water Front: Water is the liquid gold of the 21st century. While corporations urge local governments to privatize municipal water, communities around the world are organizing to ensure affordable access to this life sustaining resource. THE WATER FRONT is the story of one community's determination to fight the seemingly inevitable path of water privatization.

Maude Barlow on Water Privatization and the World's Water Crisis - From The Water Front

Chris Michael — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 06:41:08 -0700

Maude Barlow speaks about the world water crisis and how water is the liquid gold of the 21st century. While corporations urge local governments to privatize municipal water, communities around the world are organizing to ensure affordable access to this life sustaining resource. This interview is from THE WATER FRONT, the story of one community's determination to fight the seemingly inevitable path of water privatization.

The Water Front

Chris Michael — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 05:21:00 -0700

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

Water is the liquid gold of the 21st century. While corporations urge local governments to privatize municipal water, communities around the world are organizing to ensure affordable access to this life sustaining resource. THE WATER FRONT is the story of one community's determination to fight the seemingly inevitable path of water privatization.

(1 minute trailer). See links below for more...

Stop The Privatization of Water

VideoVolunteers — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:35:52 -0800

This video informed slum dwellers that the Mumbai Municipal Authority was planning to privatize their water. After the screenings, 300 people instead of the usual 60 showed up for a government meeting on water and demanded that the officials come clean about the plan and the costs to slum dwellers. Shortly after that meeting, the government halted the privatization plan in that part of Mumbai, and started supplying water twice a day instead of once in that particular area.

Burning the Future: Coal in America (trailer)

gracie — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:46:19 -0800

"Burning the Future" (2008) depicts in graphic terms the impact of mountain top removal coal mining on nearby communities in West Virginia. This is the trailer for the feature-length film - check it out on the Sundance Channel on May 13!

The Fight for Water in South Africa

uusc4all — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:25:00 -0800

Residents of Phiri, Soweto, South Africa, take their fight for water to the courts.

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Indigenous Children in Brazil

ecatny — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:55:30 -0800

As Brazil launches an impressive initiative to help the country's most impoverished children, Nils Kastberg, the UNICEF Regional Director for the Americas and Carribean discusses the urgent needs of indigenous children.
Credits: Producer:Sabine Dolan