Flow

A long time ago people had no factories and the pollution was less than nowadays.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MC_Mehta_v._Kamal_Nath Water is a source of human life for animals and other living creatures. Some people do not care about infection of water and they only think about how to get money. Many manufacturers throw their waste in rivers and as a result humans get many diseases such as cancer. Moreover polluted water from industries can cause death.www.environment.gov.au/ Although many poor people drink tainted water they do not understand the danger for their health. Scientists say that human bodies contain 80 percent of water. Imagine if the earth had no water. There would be no life on earth. Earth is covered by 70 percent of water . Every year more than 3.570 million people die because of diseases caused from unhealthy water. Human bodies take impure water by washing and showering.

Flow movie shows and discusses as the effects of water problems and how we can solve them. This movie is true about what's happening nowadays in our water system. The major countries that the film discusses are India, USA and South Africa. In India crops require 5-10 times the amount of water to produce the same amount of food so they use a lot of water to grow crops. It is expensive and too expensive for poor people to use traditional methods in India. Pathogens are found in water and cause heart diseases. 2 dollars In India can bring 10 liters of water per day. That money is enough for one person a year. Suez is damming the Ganges River to sell water back to Indian citizens at 10 times the price it had been.http://www.springerlink.com/content/c163v60011036778/ This caused a lot of people to die. There are 7600 community-built water harvesting projects in India that affect the living environment and living creatures. People in India try to protest against Coca-Cola Company. The state of California has 27 years of water left and this is enough even for poor people to drink water and distribute it to other poor countries. In America it is estimated that three out of four Americans drink bottled water. Nestle company market had produced 70 brands of bottled water. In South Africa the water in the river is most polluted so they use water tablets for cleaning water but the problem is a lot of people cannot afford the water tablet. Dirty water kills people much more than AIDS and wars. All of these factors lead poor people to drink water and after that death is waiting for them. Water is an important source for living so we need to take care of it for our health. Water is not money, it’s a life, You can save poor people from death.www.nio.org/aroundus/Sagar/water_cycle.jsp

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"Beyond thirst: the global water crisis." Faces: People, Places, and Cultures Apr. 2009: P84. Student Resource Centre Gold. Web. 22 Dec. 2009.

"Problems: WATER SHORTAGES." Web of creation. Web. 22 Dec. 2009.

FLOW, For Love of Water. Dir. Steven Starr. The Group Entertainment, 2008. DVD.