If there is one documentary you need to see this year, it is the recent Oscilloscope Laboratories release Flow - an incredibly informative & beautiful film about the global water crisis.

Here’s the synopsis from the site,

Irena Salina’s award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis.

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.

Interviews with scientists and activists 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.

Dubbed “the scariest movie at the (2008) Sundance Film Festival” by Wired Magazine, I found this film to be absolutely riveting but also touching. It serves both as an urgent wake-up call and poignant love letter to the substance that sustains us all. So drop what you’re doing and go see this film!!

If it’s not in a theatres near you, you can buy the Flow DVD and find Flow on Netflix.