Capturing
Water
We all share the same water
The film highlights three organised struggles. You will meet working class activists, bravely mobilising against water restriction devices and water privatisation; an activist farmer litigating to stop city plans to cement over an aquifer that provides affordable food to thousands of people; and a suburban activist tirelessly engaging a city that makes decades of empty promises to stop the sewage flowing into life-giving wetlands. Connecting the water bodies across the city and featuring the City’s views on its infrastructure and water provision responsibilities, the film brings fresh insights into activism and hope and challenges narratives around the myths of Day Zero, a story that is gaining international traction for global ‘solutions’ to cities elsewhere under threat of running out of water.
TAKE ACTION
SHIFTING PUBLIC OPINIONS TOWARDS:
Universal water access to clean, pollution free water for people and small-scale agriculture is a right.
Nature based and community driven solutions that foreground equity are essential for sustainable solutions to the climate/ ecological crisis concerning adaptation.
And away way from market based extractivist approaches that penalise the poor by raising the price of water, water cut offs and continue to insist on private sector involvement in water infrastructure and the commodification of water
CONCRETE POLICY CHANGES
End all punitive policy for the working poor when it comes to access to water.
Introduce remedial solutions to help ease water pollution and mitigate health hazards
Government policy shift to support small scale agroecological farming as part of the adaptation plans
EMPOWER COMMUNITY-BASED GROUPS
Through the film we are beginning to build alliances of all those who believe must remain a public good and are opposed to privatisation.
The hope is that film will firm up loose alliances and build wider alliances around the water crisis and deepen the conversation around people centred solutions.
The film and impact campaign will promote an intersectional approach to solving the water crisis and campaign building providing clear opportunities for the advancement of woman’s right
