Blue Gold: World Water Wars
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Presented by Dr. Linda MacCammon
Director of the Peace and Social Justice Studies Program at SJFC
Tuesday, October 6, 2009, 7:00 – 9:00 PM
First Unitarian Church, 220 S. Winton Rd, Rochester
FREE and open to the public.
Blue Gold documents the privatization of city water supplies and mishaps from resulting mismanagement. The film also tells of bribery and corruption of public officials leading to the privatization of municipal water supplies, and grassroots fights to block the sale of local water to companies that bottle and sell it for huge profits across the globe.
Some success stories are also told, most notably the water riots in Bolivia, leading to Bechtel being banished from that country.
Blue Gold also dispels the myth that water is never lost in the hydrological cycle. Water is not technically “lost,†but clean, usable water is. We’re also pumping groundwater about 15 times as fast as it can be naturally replenished, which, if not reversed, will lead to a major collapse of the world’s water resources.
Dr. Linda MacCammon is an associate professor at St. John Fisher College and the director of their Peace and Social Justice Studies Program
