Indigo Kristal
Cape Town nearly ran dry in 2018. As activist Faeza Meyer leads the fight against water restrictions hurting poor communities, the film reveals conflicts over infrastructure, sewage issues, and threat…
Indigo Kristal
Cape Town nearly ran dry in 2018. As activist Faeza Meyer leads the fight against water restrictions hurting poor communities, the film reveals conflicts over infrastructure, sewage issues, and threats to aquifers. In 2018, Cape Town narrowly averted completely running out of drinking water. In a country sitting 29th on the list of water-scarce places in the world, this became a ghastly harbinger of things to come. The city council committed to take urgent action to protect the supply of water by enforcing a policy of limited access. Capturing Water follows the unfolding fight, led by working class activist Faeza Meyer, to overturn water cuts-offs, which are punitive to the Cape's many poor and crowded dwellings. From the mayor self-financing crucial infrastructure to the communities living with sewage spills, and the campaigners fighting land developers that threaten the city's aquifers, this expertly-crafted documentary exposes the lethal pitfalls of market-led solutions to the water crisis.
Indigo Kristal
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Cape Town nearly ran dry in 2018. As activist Faeza Meyer leads the fight against water restrictions hurting poor communities, the film reveals conflicts over infrastructure, sewage issues, and threats to aquifers. In 2018, Cape Town narrowly averted completely running out of drinking water.
In a country sitting 29th on the list of water-scarce places in the world, this became a ghastly harbinger of things to come. The city council committed to take urgent action to protect the supply of water by enforcing a policy of limited access. Capturing Water follows the unfolding fight, led by working class activist Faeza Meyer, to overturn water cuts-offs, which are punitive to the Cape's many poor and crowded dwellings.
From the mayor self-financing crucial infrastructure to the communities living with sewage spills, and the campaigners fighting land developers that threaten the city's aquifers, this expertly-crafted documentary exposes the lethal pitfalls of market-led solutions to the water crisis..