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 * Blue Gold – World Water Wars **

1. Title, director and release year? · Blue Gold · Sam Bozzo · 2008  2. What is the central argument or narrative of the film? · The world’s water supply has been damaged so much that it is reaching points where humans are demanding more than what can be provided o Pumping out 15 times more water from the grounds than what is returned · Whatever is left is being turned into a business venture which is only leading to more issues  3. What sustainability problems does the film draw out? · Improper treatment of resources which are leading to a shortage of water o The cycle of returning water to the earth is very unbalanced and is leading to a shortage · Such resources being privatized and turning into a world corporation causing much of the world to suffer · Corporations exploiting the need for the water throughout the world as a life dependent resources as a profit for themselves.  4. What parts of the film did you find most persuasive and compelling? Why? · The fact that the earth only has 3% of fresh water which much of which is polluted beyond human consumption o <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The picture of the earth showing the freshwater supply really puts it into perspective o <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Looks like a foreign planet · <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The world’s most polluted river that the aliens travel down to cross into the US o <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The amount of disease that is currently alive in the river and the fact of how dangerous it is to swim in it. o <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The amount of filth that flows down the rivers in Mexico city § <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Dead dogs § <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Fetuses § <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The fact that this water is used for the crops which are turned and sold in Mexican markets, poising consumers · <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The amount of water required to process something as small as a microchip o <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">32 liters is unbelievable o <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">107 liters per banana o <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">21904 liters per 50 lbs of corn · <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The effects of deforestation are not only the ones that are commonly known but are effecting the water as well o <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The rain slips away is unable to be used because there are no longer tress in many areas to retain the water in the roots o <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The delicate balance that everything in the world has with one another § <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">No rivers – no nutrients – no growth – no trees – no ability to hold rain – ground dries out – can’t retain future rain · <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">An organization such as the WTO who is intended to help the developing world is in turn causing massive damage by supporting water privatization o <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It is happening within such large countries such as the US o <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The renaming of companies to covered up bad tracks o <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Exploiting countries that are some of the direst in the world to export what they have to settle their debts o <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">People being prevented from collecting rain water · <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The amount of a fight that the corporation such as Nestle put forward to stay and pump water from public supplies although obviously not wanted and despised by the locals. o <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Private corporations trying to buy water from areas in a deceiving manner · <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The system of agriculture o <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">North Ca water to South CA – to grow alapha – shipped to japan kobe beef – then shipped back to US · <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The fact that water is being harvested from the clouds, to make it rain over a town which prevents the next town from getting water · <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The amount of effort that is being put in to protect future water supplies o <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The mapping of the United States where conflict for water will be likely in 2025 <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> 5. What parts of the film were you not compelled or convinced by? · <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The introduction of the film was a good way to grab you attentions but I do not feel like it had a seamless link with the film itself · <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The talk about Coke bottling Dasani in the plastic bottles because it is what the consumer wants, although in Kenya I feel as though users would prefer the same product in a cheaper packaging which would cost them less · <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The efforts that are said to being done by Rumsfeld and US forces to move into South America and stationed near the reservoir, where as in the shots of the capital building there is a large fountain spewing water into the air o <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Wasteful · <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The suggestion of moving to a world where diets do not depend on world trade o <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The world has been so treated and pampered that society has developed a pallet that would take much effort for this to be successful · <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The beginning o the film was very negative while at the end they and the stories of all of the revolts but how much of a difference is being made by these effects in the mass scale. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> 6. What additional information does this film compel you to seek out? Where do you want to dig deeper and what connections do you want to make with other issues, factors, problems, etc.? · <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I would like to see a timeline of the pollution rates of the freshwater in the world o <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Would like to see the exponential increase in water pollution <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> 7. What audiences does the film best address? What kind of imagination is fostered in viewers? Do you think the film is likely to change the way viewers think about and act on environmental problems? · <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">People who view statistics that do not believe that the earth’s resources are not what they use to be · <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Those who water their lawns during peak hours of the day or who do not abide by drought rules when they are in effect. · <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I feel as though this filmed is addressed well enough on such a level that an average individual could view it and be moved in some way to at least depend more on tap water versus buying bottled water · <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The idea of running out of water would be impossible to imagine by most people yet is painted in a vivid picture by this film. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> 8. What kinds of action or points of intervention are suggested by the film? · <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The dire urge to protect whatever water we have, noting is directly suggested but it truly makes you want to actively participate in water conservation o <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Drinking from the tap, versus supporting water privatization such was buying bottled water. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> 9. What could have been added to this film to enhance its environmental educational value? · A world graph reason that show the countries that consume the most water. o The film focuses on the world as a whole not treating the water supplies properly, although third world countries may by misusing it in a different manner § Where is it being polluted, used excessively? · The amount of water that would be required in the construction of a desalination plant and how much energy it would require in the long run. · They speak about challenging the systems that determines people as winners and losers, but what should be done to challenge such organizations? · Some more details on the disputes within America over the water o Was it done privately o Were there discussions over where the water went?