November 7, 2008

Water is a human right - one that is being infringed worldwide. Flow: For Love of Water, the Sundance-nominated documentary about Michigan's - and the world's - water crisis, comes to the Michigan Theater on Sunday and Monday, November 16 and 17.
 
The Michigan Theater presents the award-winning film and Michigan Peaceworks has assembled a panel discussion which will follow the 7 pm screening on Sunday, Nov. 16.  Please visit the Michigan Theater web site beginning November 12 for a complete schedule with show times: http://michtheater.org
 
Panelists include:
Art Dorland of the Iraq Water Project
Christy McGillivray of Clean Water Action
Arny Stieber of Veterans for Peace.
Lisa Wozniak of Michigan League of Conservation Voters. 
A member of the Huron River Watershed Council
 
The film covers issues of water privatization and the $400-billion per year bottled water industry water bottling resulting in massive problems and human rights infringements all over the world, along with blueprints for change. (Not rated. 93 minutes.)
 
The event marks the launch of the Iraq Water Project- Ann Arbor, a collaborative effort between Veterans for Peace and Michigan Peaceworks to send water treatment units to Iraqi hospitals and schools.  The project is not only humanitarian, but also aimed at raising awareness of both water issues and the ongoing war in Iraq.
 
"There's a lot of scary stuff in (director) Irena Salina's globe-trotting documentary Flow, about the perilous state of the world's water supply, but the one that made me sit up and pay attention was the nightmare scenario that whole wars might be fought not over oil but clean water." – G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle.