The human body is made up of 75% water. It is the essence of life, sustaining every living being on the planet. Without it we would have no plants, no animals, and no people. In the documentary titled Blue Gold: World Water Wars, Wallerstein does an excellent job of analyzing the privatization, pollution, and profit of water in the International arena. The film continues to describe how water privatization affects everyone on the planet, but is most destructive to those who live in lower class regions. One could say that the main goal of this film is to show people how global capitalism are negatively affecting our society and how water privatization is a big part of this. In the long run water privatization is majorly contributing to the expansion of global inequality.
The film is divided into four parts. The first presents "The Crisis”, this describes the details of the water cycle and how human activity affects and is affected by that cycle. Second is "The Politics”, which introduces the corporate people involved in the privatization and commoditization of water and the popular resistance around the world to keep its water. Next is "The Water War”, a short history of the ancient and bloody history of water and the fight for control of it. Finally, "The Way Forward”, a rewarding end to the story. Blue Gold documents the environmental issues behind why we are rapidly losing our fresh water supplies, the politics behind water ownership and how that is worsening the situation, and the scenarios of what will happen as water becomes scarcer over time.
The documentary looks at how we are using up water faster than it can be replenished through natural systems. We are mining as much as 15 times more groundwater than is being replenished, at the rate of 30 billion gallons a day. We're also polluting it beyond use, destroying the wetlands that are natural filters, and blocking the rivers that...