"FLOW”
HOW DID A HANDFUL OF CORPORATIONS STEAL OUR WATER
Saturday, September 13th, 7:30 PM
Laemmle Sunset 5 Theatre
Crescent Heights and Sunset Boulevards, Los Angeles
Film Screening and Panel Discussion
with Special Guests
David Nahai, General Manager of the Los Angeles DWP
Dorothy Green, Founder of Heal the Bay
Steven Starr, Producer of FLOW
Please join So Cal Grassroots for another in a series of screenings and panel discussions designed to educate and inform our members about the most important issues facing our world today. Come watch one of the Los Angeles premiere screenings of FLOW, Irena Salina’s award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis.
Shooting on location in Africa, Bolivia, India, Canada, France and the US, Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world’s dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel.
Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the water grab, while begging the question "CAN ANYONE REALLY OWN WATER?"
Beyond identifying the problem, FLOW also gives viewers a look at the people and institutions providing practical solutions to the water crisis and those developing new technologies, which are fast becoming blueprints for a successful global and economic turnaround.
To purchase tickets, go to www.actblue.com/page/spclevts.com
Following the film, our panelists will discuss water quality and supply issues in California including the significance of the Governor’s declaration of a drought, the disproportionate influence of big agribusiness on state water policy and their interest in profiting from re-selling this scarce resource and the current preference for investing in expensive and water wasting dam projects as opposed to inexpensive, efficient drip irrigation technologies and conservation measures.
Panelists:
H. David Nahai, has been General Manager of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power since December of 2007. Previously, Nahai was appointed by Mayor Villaraigosa to the LADWP Board in September 2005 and elected both Vice President and President by his fellow commissioners. As President, Nahai led the effort to increase the Department’s use of renewable energy sources. Since 2005, LADWP has nearly tripled its renewable energy portfolio from 3 percent to 8 percent, and the Department is on track to reach its ultimate goals of 20 percent by 2010 and 35 percent by 2020.
Nahai, an attorney, began his career in the private sector close to three decades ago working at some of the nation’s largest and most respected law firms.
Nahai is widely recognized throughout California as a leading expert in water issues. With over ten years on the state’s Regional Water Quality Control Board, Nahai has been charged with safeguarding the quality of surface, ground and coastal waters while covering a jurisdiction of 11 million residents in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties. Nahai also serves on the Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commission, and is currently its Vice-Chairman. Additionally, Nahai is Vice President of the Board of the California League of Conservation Voters.
Dorothy Green, author of Managing Water; Avoiding Crisis in California is the Secretary of the California Water Impact Network. Green served on the statewide board that directed the fight to stop the Peripheral Canal when it was on the ballot in 1982,and is Founding President of Heal the Bay and President Emeritus of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers Watershed Council. She served as a Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Commissioner for three and a half years and chairs the most important water policy conference in the state, the POWER Conference, now in its sixteenth year.
Steven Starr, producer of FLOW, is the founder of the award-winning creator sustainability pioneer Revver.com. Steven previously managed KPFK-FM, the largest community radio signal in the U.S., co-founded P2P pioneer Uprizer, user-generated platform LA IndyMedia. Prior to that, writer/director and/or producer of award-winning indie films such as Joey Breaker and Johnny Suede, co-creator/producer of The State for MTV/CBS, headed the New York film office for the William Morris Agency with clients such as Ang Lee, Tim Robbins, Larry David, Joseph Papp and Andy Warhol, and started off as a concert promoter for Bob Marley and the Wailers.
To watch the trailer, go to: www.flowthefilm.com
To purchase tickets, go to: www.actblue.com/page/spclevts.com
