Blue Gold Commentary

I didn't know Los Angeles was such a barren desert--I know we live in a desert, but it never occurred to me before that our "prosperity" came from such a long way. I certainly learned a lot about the pipelines and dams that provide humans water, but also a lot about the disadvantage of trapping that water.
I have known for my whole life that water is an unstoppable, always moving force. That humans have learned how to contain it seemed like a good thing, but then I learned from the movie Blue Gold: World Water Wars that there is a reason that water is not supposed to be inert. Chemicals, bacteria, and nutrients are moved and dispersed through the water as it flows, so keeping it still kills the nutrients and gives chemicals like mercury and other things like bacteria the chance to grow. It also creates oxygen bubbles, so the water is no longer good anymore.
Dams were built to stop water so industries, who use it most and pollute it most, can bottle it up and sell it back to us. They take a lot of water and don't put it back, so the water sources are depleting quickly--this isn't the way nature meant for it to be. Water was meant to go in a cycle--to return to the place it came from eventually. But because of the way our cities are built, the water can't be returned in a natural way. It goes through the sewers, polluted by trash and other human waste, to go to the ocean, where it pollutes the ocean too.
It's sad that not only do we destroy our water, we destroy ourselves and we don't even realize it. The privatization of water is causing us our lives--we literally have to pay money to live. And those who don't have money, like in developing third world countries, can't pay that money. So they cannot live. Is this what the world has come to?