During class, we watched a documentary called FLOW: For the Love of Water. The documentary coved many topics, such as big companies taking over towns in order to regulate the water around them and how water brings stability to places of poverty. Without water there is no society, economy, and no life on Earth. Since water is a natural resource, I believe that it should be available to all people, no matter their social status or amount of money they own. However, big corporations, such as Nestlé and Coca-Cola have taken over impoverished places, such as India. In India, they built factories that would take water out of the natural lakes and rivers, bottle the water into plastic bottles, and selling the water for about 10 times the amount it would normally cost.
This film did a really good job of capturing the audience’s attention by using different forms of media, such as pictures with text/statistics, videos of people speaking about their experiences, and researchers who have spent years in the field studying the impacts of water’s economy. I found it really surprising to find out that bottled water is generally not safer than tap water, because most water companies don’t know what goes into their water. For example, pathogens, industrial chemicals, and rocket fuel are just some of the items that are not being removed from a water source. Drinking water from a bottle is extremely bad for our environment, especially because most of the plastic from the bottles is polluted in our landfills and oceans. The bottles also release chemicals into the water that people drink, which makes the water even more harmful to the human body.
I recommend that all people watch this documentary, regardless of how they view climate change, because polluted water affects all people on Earth. Even the richest people are susceptible to drinking water that is not completely clean. Since this problem affects all people on Earth, everyone should come together in order to create a positive change in our world, and fight for the natural rights of all humans.
Works Cited:
oscopelabs. “FLOW – Official Theatrical Trailer – Oscilloscope Laboratories.” YouTube, YouTube, 29 July 2008, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGd9D4J0lag.
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