Under the cover of darkness, African plumbers secretly reconnect shantytown water pipes to ensure a community’s survival. A California scientist exposes toxic public water supplies. A “water guru” promotes community-based initiatives to provide water throughout India. The CEO of a billion-dollar water company argues for privatization as the wave of the future. A Canadian author pops the cork on bottled water, unveiling the disturbing realities that drive profits in the global water business. Flow: For Love of Water is an inspired yet disturbingly provocative wake-up call. The future of our planet is drying up rapidly. Focusing on pollution, human rights, politics, and corruption, filmmaker Salina constructs an exceptionally articulate profile of the precarious relationship uniting human beings and water. While each community’s challenges are unique, the message is universal--the time to turn the tide is now.

 

Director Irena Salina talked with us about why more people in the West are becoming aware of the human and environmental impact of water scarcity, how reservoir privatization affects common people, and what the role of world government should be in resolving the problem before it's too late.

Salina was born in France and acted in French theater before moving to New York to study with Charles Laughton at the Actors Studio. Her first short film, See You on Monday, screened at the Hamptons International Film Festival. Ghost Bird: The Life and Art of Judith Deim, her first documentary feature, won the award for best documentary at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival and the President’s Award at Mexico’s prestigious Ajijic International Film Festival, and is a Sundance Channel favorite.