Watching a documentary about the nearly unknown water crisis is eye opening, and causes the viewer to think about something that most of us taken for granted. Blue Gold was an informative documentary that caused the viewers to reflect upon water and the global situation. We live in a world where day by day we careless use the resources around us, without thinking about the impacts.
Although the movie was a standard environmental documentary, it was very enlightening into the corruption and problems with a resource that should be accessible to all. The documentary was less about how we waste water in our daily lives, but more about where the water actually comes from and issues globally. I was most shocked to learn about publicly and privately owned water sources. Getting water from the tap costs a fraction of a penny, but the same water run through a filter costs more than a dollar. It isnt practical, and yet corporations are making money from selling something that we already had.
After watching Blue Gold, I wasn't able to go back to my ignorant ways of not thinking about water and where it comes from. When I thought of water accessibility on a global scale, it never occurred to me that the only clean water may be owned by a private company and sold to the public, like in Africa. Or that the water that supplies large cities, can come from hundreds of miles away. Los Angles, for example, successfully bought and drained an entire water supply, and now depends on water pumped in from around the country. Blue Gold didnt try to turn the viewer against any one source, but instead kept the audience captivated with the cold hard facts.
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