Please join us on Tuesday, May 5, at the Walpole Public Library at 7:00 PM for a screening of FLOW, “For the Love of Water”, the award winning documentary about the world water crisis and the impact of water privatization on developing countries. It will be presented by the Rev. Bob McKetchnie and will be followed by a short talk. FLOW is Irena Salina's documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis. Of the 6 billion people on earth, 1.1 billion do not have access to safe, clean drinking water.
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.
Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the water grab, while begging the question "can anyone really own water?"
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.
On December 10th, 2008 FLOW was invited to screen at the United Nations as part of the 60th Anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights
Rev. Bob McKetchnie is the minister at First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church in Medfield. He became interested in the topic of water privatization as a result of visiting Mexico last year while on sabbatical. He went to visit Mexico with a Natick non-profit known as "Project Stretch: Dentistry Reaching Out To Children", for the purpose of helping facilitate dentistry services to the poor. Clean water was a major concern and it opened his eyes to similar problems around the world.
