Water Makes Money
Synopsis
Just like the air we breathe, water is an element necessary to the survival of mankind, animals and plants. Hence, July 27, 2010, access to drinking water was integrated into the Declaration of Human Rights by the General Assembly of the United Nations. Despite everything, water is constantly the prey of the economic interests of multinational corporations concerned with increasing their profits. This problem touches developing countries as well as rich, industrialized countries.
The principle is simple: each time a community tries to modify its water management, Veolia or Suez, the two most important water companies in the world, stick their beaks in. Together, they constitute an opaque cartel that, for example in France, supplies around 80% of the population. Result: a staggering increase of cost to the consumer, reduction in water quality, lack of openness often linked to a climate of corruption. Even if it is no longer about privatization, strictly speaking, but about public-private...
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Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : La Mare aux Canards
- Foreign production company : Kern Film
- French distribution : La Mare aux Canards
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Documentary
- Coproducer countries : France, Germany
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Production year : 2010
- French release : 23/03/2011
