In her film For Love Of Water, director Irena Salina sounds the alarm: our life-giving
water is a resource in peril across the planet. The film highlights the local intimacies of a
global crisis: African struggle plumbers reconnecting shanty town water pipes under
cover of darkness to ensure a community’s survival; a Californian scientist forcing
awareness of shockingly ignored public water toxicities; a billion dollar water company
chief arguing privatization as the wave of the future; a “Water G

In her film For Love Of Water, director Irena Salina sounds the alarm: our life-giving
water is a resource in peril across the planet. The film highlights the local intimacies of a
global crisis: African struggle plumbers reconnecting shanty town water pipes under
cover of darkness to ensure a community’s survival; a Californian scientist forcing
awareness of shockingly ignored public water toxicities; a billion dollar water company
chief arguing privatization as the wave of the future; a “Water Guru” awakening and
empowering community-based water initiatives all over India; a Canadian author pulling
away the veils of illusion to reveal harsh truths driving global water profiteering, and so
much more.
Through Irena Salina’s unflinching focus on water politics, pollution and human rights,
the precarious relationship between human beings and water cannot be ignored. While
specifics of locality and issue may differ, the message is the same; water and our future
as a species is fast drying up. Armed with their thirst for survival, people around the
world are fighting for their birthright; unless we instigate change, we face a world in
which the poor will die and the rich survive. For Love Of Water is a catalyst for people
everywhere to realize the time has come to turn the tide, and that the time is now.