Flow, Film Review

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1149583/

2008 documentary about water. Lots to learn.
"In Texas toxicologists find high levels of Prozac in tissues of every fish they sample."
Atrazine, banned in European countries, is used in US, said to emasculate frogs and fish. EPA approved its use in 2006.
Private international water companies: Thames Water, Vivendi, Suez.
$30 billion is needed to bring clean drinking water to the entire world. We spend $100 billion each year on bottled water.
Water is third largest industry after oil and electricity.
Dams create methane gas. Main film does not mention that it can be captured and used to run devices.
40-80 million people displaced creating large dams in 20th Century.
Corporations want to put a dam on the Ganges River in India.
World bank funds dam construction. It is immune from lawsuits.
Two vice presidents of water companies are advisors to World Bank president.
Planet is on verge of major extinction due to scarcity of water.
Nestle Company owns 70 brands of bottled water, including but not limited to Perrier, Poland Spring, Ice Mountain, Pellegrino and Deer Park. Pepsi and Coca Cola also sell bottle water. In Michigan Nestle earns about $1.8 million each day with no cost for the water they extract from the land. There are wells in Framingham MA, and Greenwich CT.
Quote: "Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed its the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead
"It is not an issue of lack of knowledge. There's a lack of political will. We have to collectively find the political will to do what needs to be done to save the world's water resources." Maud Barlow.
From DVD jacket:
On average bottled water costs 900 times the amount of tap water.
This year [2008] Americans will spend $40 billion on bottled water.
25% of all bottled water is re-packaged tap[ water. One scene in the film shows a couple at a restaurant ordering bottled water from a fake menu for a lot of money. They think it tastes better than the tap water it is.
Tap water has more stringent governmental standards than that of bottled water regulation.
The amount of oil required to put one bottle of water in your hand would fill 1/4 of that same bottle.
90% of used bottles are not recycled.
Right now,  millions of pounds of trash are floating in the Pacific Ocean to form an island at least the size of Texas - 90% of that trash is discarded plastic.