One of the scariest Outrage Docs. The world is running out of safe drinking water, due to a combination of climate change, population growth, and poor public policy. Inspired by Alex Prud’homme’s book
The Ripple Effect, filmmaker Jessica Yu (
In the Realms of the Unreal) zigzags across the globe, from Las Vegas to Australia to Palestine to Michigan, to show how dangerous the situation has become – while talking heads including Erin Brockovich-Ellis explain that government can’t, or won’t, save us from pollution and heedless waste. One answer: recycled water (from sewer systems). Another: never, ever buy bottled water. This well constructed doc may lead to nightmares. (105 min.)
By
Kelly Vance