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Water Wars – Movie Review of Water Wars – 2009
When Drought, Flood and Greed Collide
By Jennifer Merin, About.com Guide
According to a recent World Bank study, the demand for water will exceed supply by 40 percent within twenty years. By presenting an overview of recent flooding, drought, and other water-related disasters in Bangladesh, India and New Orleans, director Jim Burrough’s Water Wars: When Drought, Flood and Greed Collide presents a prescient look into the future of fresh water access and control, which many believe will be the cause for World War III.
The Fresh Water Crisis Worldwide
The United Nations may have declared access to fresh water to be a universal human right, but the sustaining the supply of fresh water is a global crisis. As stated in Water Wars, an estimated 35,000 people die daily from water related causes.
Physical manifestations of Earth’s water crisis include ongoing life-taking drought in Africa, death-dealing floods and tidal waves in Bangladesh, the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia, hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and the sea breaking through the dykes in Holland and killing 1800 people.
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