I'm impressed by the amount of humanity that was portrayed in this documentary. It was fascinating right up to the very end. The story here is about people, so give it a chance, even if you feel the subject might be unintersting.

It is shocking how America's corporations have been so active in privatization of services to populations in countries where the people are powerless to do anything about it. In Bolivia America's Bechtel Corp. privatized water and made it a crime to collect rainwater! Do some Googling or search Yahoo. America is far from being a "good guy" in many of these stories. Yes, America has lost jobs to other countries (globalization), but it seems like the corporations are the only winners in any of this.Below is a cut and paste from an interview of 10/5/2006 between Oscar Olivera (a protest leader against the water privatization in Bolivia) and Amy Goodman: http://www.democracynow.org/2006/10/5/bolivian_activist_oscar_olivera_on_bechtelsAMY GOODMAN: But could you explain, though it’s well-known in Bolivia, hardly known here at all, though it’s a U.S. company, what happened in Cochabamba? Talk about what Bechtel tried to do and what the people responded.OSCAR OLIVERA: [translated] It’s not that Bechtel tried to do it. They did it. They increased the charges for water, the cost of water, by 300%, so that every family had to pay, for this water service, one-fifth of their income.AMY GOODMAN: How did they get control of the water? I mean, here, you turn on the tap. You don’t pay.OSCAR OLIVERA: [translated] The government, under a law that was passed, conceded control of the water under a monopoly to Bechtel in a certain area. So that means that Bechtel tried to charge a fee and had the monopoly power over a very basic necessity for people. The law said even that people had to ask, had to obtain a permit to collect rainwater. That means that even rainwater was privatized. The most serious thing was that indigenous communities and farming communities, who for years had their own water rights, those water sources were converted into property that could be bought and sold by international corporations.