Planet is running out of clean water

CNN - One sixth of the world's population does not have access to cleandrinking water. More than 2 million people, most of them children, dieeach year from water-borne diseases.

People in India, where millions don't have access to clean drinking water, fill buckets from a supply pipeline.

Water-related problems aren't restricted to the developing world. Aharmful pesticide, banned by many European countries, remains widelyused in the United States, where it runs into rivers and streams.

And one expert estimates California's water supply will run out in 20 years.

These sobering statistics come from "FLOW," a new documentary filmabout the world's dwindling water supply. The filmmakers and theirsources argue a combination of factors, including drought andskyrocketing demand, have created a looming global crisis thatthreatens the long-term survival of the human race.

Afterpremiering in January at the Sundance Film Festival, "FLOW" openedSeptember 12 in New York and Los Angeles, California, and expands tomore cities this week. The New York Times called the documentary "lessdepressing than galvanizing, an informed and heartfelt examination ofthe tug of war between public health and private interests."

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