LORDS OF WATER

MAIN BASSE SUR L'EAU

By Jérôme FRITEL

VOSTAO - as CONS

Environmental - Completed 2019


Festivals
& Awards

Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (online) 2021
Doc Market
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Environmental, Social issues, Documentary
    • Countries
    • FRANCE
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH-UNITED STATES, FRENCH
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Jérôme FRITEL
    • Producer(s)
    • Marc BEDUGO (MAGNÉTO PRESSE), Barbara CONFORTI (Magnéto Presse)
    • Synopsis
    • They call it ’blue gold.’ Around the world, demand for water is exploding. By 2050, at least one in four will live in a country suffering from water shortages - creating ideal conditions for a new market...

      Goldman Sachs, HSBC, UBS, Allianz, Deutsche Bank, BNP. Banks, investment funds and hedge funds are all rushing to invest billions of euros in anything related to water. A real monopoly of water has begun.

      From California to Australia, from New York to London via Marseille, we investigate the financialization of water. New power relations are being established and access to water is being threatened.

      It’s a battle taking place on many fronts: ideological, political, environmental, and of course, economic. The fate of nearly 10 billion inhabitants around the world depends on its outcome.