Documentary "FLOW: For Love of Water," premiering at the Sundance Film Festival this week, condemns water profiteering, calling for a UN resolution to make access to clean drinking water a human right. PARK CITY, Utah, Jan 23, 2008 (AFP)

The film by French-born director Irena Salina blasts Paris-based Suez and Vivendi Environment (now Veolia Environment, GVWWC Editor) for commercializing water systems around the world, as well as Nestle, the world's largest bottled water seller, for
draining watersheds.

Even the World Bank gets knocked in the film for funding massive water diversion projects that have displaced 80 million people, instead of smaller, cheaper and more eco-friendly community projects to bring fresh drinking water to the poor.

"It's a very dangerous trend, at a time when clean drinking water is becoming scarce, even in the United States, the richest country in the world," said Salina in an interview with AFP.

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