Water

If you’re like us, you spent some significant portion of your day trying to figure out how the world is going to end. Sure, the greenhouse effect seems to be raising global temperatures, polar ice caps are melting, sea levels rising, fisheries are collapsing, but how, specifically, is that going to manifest in our lives? We don’t live close enough to the sea to be swamped, and we don’t eat fish that much to begin with. Not to say that we don’t think disaster is coming, it’s just that we’re having a hard time figuring its form.

We’re pretty sure that this week’s Friday Night at the Meaningful Movies (7 pm Keystone Congregational Church) has the answer: Two-thirds of the world’s population face water shortages by 2025, according to the UN, and 36 states face water shortages by 2013. From their web site:

Flow: For The Love of Water
(93min, Irena Salina, 2008)
Irena Salina’s award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century: The World Water Crisis. Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world’s dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel.[….]

Beyond identifying the problem, FLOW also gives viewers a look at the people and institutions providing practical solutions to the water crisis and those developing new technologies, which are fast becoming blueprints for a successful global and economic turnaround.

Join us following the film for a discussion on the world water crisis and what can be done about it, with Carolyn Auwaerter, a local activist from the “Think Outside the Bottle” Campaign & Corporate Accountability International.

Anyway, happy Friday!