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Water policy in the can

Nature volume 452, page 288 (2008)Cite this article

Many people regard access to safe drinking water as a human right. Yet some fear that the switch from state-run utilities to private ownership will lead to a world where water flows towards the rich as surely as it flows downhill, and where the poor, especially in the developing world, will be left thirsty.

Siding firmly against privatization of water resources, director Irena Salina's documentary FLOW: For Love of Water argues that profit-making is intrinsically incompatible with the United Nations Millennium Development Goal to “reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water”. Her film, which opens this week, uses case studies of privatization at its ugliest to excite moral outrage.

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FLOW: For Love of Water is released on 21 March in Louisville, Kentucky, and across the United States later this year ( http://www.flowthefilm.com ). 

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Marris, E. Water policy in the can. Nature 452, 288 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/452288a

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