Pitt Global Brigades and Engineers without Borders present the documentary "FLOW (For the Love of Water): How did a handful of corporations steal our water?" Irena Salina's award-winning documentary investigates what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis. Prefaced by a discussion and presentation by Amizade: Global Service Learning, an NGO based in downtown Pittsburgh implementing international water projects. Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel. FLOW features interviews with scientists and activists that intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the water grab, while begging the question 'CAN ANYONE REALLY OWN WATER?' Beyond identifying the problem, FLOW also gives viewers a look at the people and institutions providing practical solutions to the water crisis and those developing new technologies, which are fast becoming blueprints for a successful global and economic turnaround.
Free pizza and refreshments provided.