[Dan02]

that's your idea of a good documentary? I thought with the exception of a few small parts, it lacked any intelligent thought once so ever and can't believe i bothered watching the whole thing.

Props to the one Indian fellow who mobilized the community to come up with solutions to their water problems. The only person in the whole documentary who actually gave a damn about finding solutions rather then just complaining about everyone else.

And as for the people who were complaining water should be free. It is, no ones stopping you from going down to the elbow with your bucket or storing rainwater on your own. On the other hand the purification, distribution systems and sanitation? Not free at all. So if you want your clean water delivered close to you and your waste water taken care of. Then yes you have to pay for it, whether it's private or public, somewhere along the line someones gotta foot the bill.

I personally loved their claim that for only $30 billion everyone in the world could have access to clean water. Nearly doubled over in laughter with that one. Go take this video to Bill Gates and convince him of that. I guarentee if he thought it was remotely possible to bring the entire world clean drinking water for only half his fortune he'd give up africa as his pet project and get er done.

And I'll say this, water isn't the oil of the next century. We have the technology that with enough willpower there will be enough water to go around and albiet slowly clean water is being brought to new places all over the world all the time.

However, there isn't enough arable land in the world to produce enough food to sustain the uncontrollable growth rates in a lot of 3rd world countries. More people already die of starvation then do from lack of suitable drinking water. But then again it's probably a bigger issue because its a hell of a lot easier to convince rich people to give money to try and solve the water issues then it is to convince poor people not to ####.

oh right, one thing i did learn. Dams are evil. lol

the incredibly stupid part is they almost had a really good point about how nutrients settle out of the water at dam sites. But instead of talking about the downstream ramifications of this, they decide their gonna toss in some global warning alarmism. :facepalm:

And yes with this critique i am saying I could/can make a better documentary on water issues facing the planet, but i lack the political motivation and there just isn't the financial incentive for me so it won't be happening.

that documentary was a bunch of mumbo jumbo thrown at a wall to see what sticks to upset some wannabe do gooders and like minded people as the filmmakers who are going to sit on their butts and do nothing about it while pointing out how aware of the issue they are.

Nothing says the worlds water supply is in jeopardy like interviewing a bunch of well off americans complaining their stream might dry up during a drought from a whooping 14 rural locations around the US.

I'm not saying there aren't major problems with the worlds water supply because there are. I'm saying that of all the issues that this documentary brought up, they pretty much missed the key points on almost all of them.

I could go on but at this point /rant

Overall the documentary gets a D- for attempting alarmism instead of actually getting it right.