Corporate giants force developing countries to
privatize their water supply for profit. Wall Street
investors target desalination and mass bulk
water export schemes. Corrupt governments use
water for economic and political gain. Military
control of water emerges and a new geopolitical
map and power structure forms, setting the
stage for world water wars.
In BLUE GOLD: WORLD WATER WARS, based
on the book of the same name, we follow
numerous worldwide examples of people
fighting for their basic right to water, from court
cases to violent revolutions to U.N. conventions
to revised constitutions to local protests at grade
schools. As Maude Barlow proclaims, “This is
our revolution, this is our war”. A line is crossed
as water becomes a commodity. Will we survive?