Blue gold
Subtitle: world water wars
By: a Purple Turtle Films production ; a film by Sam Bozzo
Contributors: Achbar, Mark, producer; Litvinoff, Si, producer; Barlow, Maude; Clarke, Tony; Purple Turtle Films; PBS Home Video
Publisher: Distributed by PBS Home Video
Published: 2009
Place of publication: [United States]
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 90
ISBN-13: 9780793670208
Subjects: Privatization; Management; Government policy; Water resources development; Water-supply; Water utilities; Economic aspects
Other titles: World water wars
Description: "Wars of the future will be fought over water, as they are today over oil, as the source of all life enters the global marketplace and political arena. Corporate giants, private investors, and corrupt governments vie for control of our dwindling fresh water supply, prompting protests, lawsuits, and revolutions from citizens fighting for the right to survive. Past civilizations have collapsed from poor water management. Will ours too?"--Container.
Notes: Title from credits.

"Mark Achbar and Si Litvinoff present"--At head of title.

DVD menu does not give any closed captioning options.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2008.

Based on the book Blue gold : the fight to stop the corporate theft of the world's water, by Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke.

Special features include trailer, filmmaker interview and deleted scenes.

Original music, Hannes Bertolini and Thomas Aichinger ; cinematography, Sam Bozzo ; editor, Sam Bozzo.

Narrator, Malcolm McDowell.

DVD in letterboxed [widescreen] presentation ; Region 1 ; NTSC ; Dolby digital.

In English with some French, Spanish, Slovak, and other various languages with English subtitles or voice over ; Closed-captioned for main feature only.

Best Environmental Film, Audience Choice, Vancouver International Film Festival.