Synopsis
From both local and global perspectives, this documentary examines the harsh realities behind the mounting water crisis. Learn how politics, pollution and human rights are intertwined in this important issue that affects every being on Earth. With water drying up around the world and the future of human lives at stake, the film urges a call to arms before more of our most precious natural resource evaporates.
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The A.V. Club
Skips right past depressing on its way to apocalyptic. - 75
New York Post
According to Irene Salina's eye-opening documentary Flow, 500,000 to 7 million US residents are sickened by tap water each year. - 75
San Francisco Chronicle
A very effective primer of an underreported problem. - 70
Village Voice
One of those charming little documentaries that make you question whether the human race is really worth preserving. - 70
Los Angeles Times
A smartly done, involving look at a number of interrelated water issues. - 70
The New York Times
Irena Salina's astonishingly wide-ranging film is less depressing than galvanizing, an informed and heartfelt examination of the tug of war between public health and private interests. - 67
Austin Chronicle
It's strange thinking of water as a market commodity, and it's hard to comprehend the kind of greed that must go into keeping it from needy mouths, but, fact is, the water business is now the world's third-largest industry, meaning there are a lot of sinister souls out there fiddling with their bank statements while Rome dries up. - 63
Boston Globe
Flow preaches to the choir with a starry-eyed NPR eco-humanism that can set the wrong kind of person's teeth on edge.