Film selected for festival challenges World Water Day goals
By Ceri Dingle
Mar 20, 2009 - 2:22:50 PM
World
Water Day this Sunday 22nd March is making much of water scarcity,
shortages and water wars and prescribing yet more bore holes and hand pumps for
people in the developing world. The film
Flush
it provides an antidote to such pitiful projects and backward ideas by
stating what should be obvious – water can never run out.
The
film has been selected for screening at the opening night of the Portobello
Film Festival on Monday,
23rd March at the Inn
On The Green,
Thorpe Close, London W10 5XL (e
ntry is free). Flush it will screen immediately before the UK
premiere of Blue Gold: World Water Wars. This
film is the epitome of doom mongering and raises apocalyptic fears of a world
with no water. Screening the two films side by side is sure to raise debate as
their messages are oceans apart.
Flush
it
director, Ceri Dingle, said today: “We should take a leaf out of Sir Joseph Bazalgette
’s book and unlike the United Nations and makers of Blue Gold,
think big on water provision and sanitation. Water really is perhaps the
easiest resource to provide to everyone as it has no limits. Blue Gold fetishes
water ownership as the scourge of the modern world, but who owns it is not the
issue; the real problem is the lack of investment in major infrastructure
projects to ensure water is always available, in ample supply, everywhere. The
UN World Water Day sadly reinforces the fashionable lie that there are limits.”
Flush it is now available on DVD complete with extra filmed material from
Twyford’s Alsager factory, the Flushed with Pride Exhibition and developments
at Thames water.
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