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"Thirst"
is a remarkable film. The looming freshwater crisis is the
greatest environmental and human rights crisis of our time.
Not surprisingly, the move is on by powerful corporations
and governments to commodify and cartelize the world's water
supplies for power and profit. "Thirst" is the story
of this assault and the fight to stop it.
— Maude Barlow, National Chair, Council of Canadians
and Co-author, with Tony Clarke, Blue Gold, The Fight to Stop
Corporate Theft of the World's Water.
"Thirst"
is fabulous. A moving and inspiring film about one of the
biggest water issues of our day— the growing dangers
of corporate control over water. It sounds a clarion call
for citizens and governments to reaffirm that water is a public
trust, not a commodity to be exploited for private profit.
I hope "Thirst" is viewed widely, discussed at town
meetings and in legislative debates, and that it energizes
citizen involvement in water decisions. A powerful —and
needed— film.
–
Sandra Postel, co-author of Rivers for Life and director of
the Global Water Policy Project.
Do you
know who controls your water? You'd better find out. As this
powerful film shows it may already be a private corporation
run from afar. 'Thirst' challenges apathy and ignorance about
our most precious resource and shows how every citizen's voice
can, indeed must, make a difference. See this film, and be
inspired to act.
—Peter H. Gleick, author of The World's Water, and 2003
MacArthur Fellow
“Thirst”
brilliantly dramatizes a potential threat of great enormity.
A careful and deeply disturbing film about the threat to human
safety and survival worldwide by corporate attempts to privatize
the earth's water supplies.
— Norris Hundley, Author, The Great Thirst, Professor
Emeritus of History, UCLA
"Thirst" is a provocative portrayal in stark human
terms of current battles over water privatization. Communities
rise in protest; corporate interests seem to turn a deaf ear.
Can there be a middle ground? "Thirst" provides
a passionate jumping off point for a debate that is just beginning.
—
Tom Graff, Environmental Defense
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