Life For Sale

Life for Sale
Can you imagine a water market? A market where owners of water stock would buy and sell, while others would profit on its price without needing it? What would life be like if all of the planets water resources, superficial or subterranean, the waters of rivers, lakes and glaciers, belonged to the private sector?
Life For Sale examines the biggest water market in the world, set up in Chile. Where the countrys water resources do not belong to the state but to private individuals and one company can own an entire river and possess a quantity of water as big as Belgium. A place where water has turned from a public good of life to property and a water right can cost as much as a house.
Even in the Atacama desert, which is considered the driest place on the planet, the mining companies big owners of Chiles longest river, the Rio Loa draw immense quantities and use valuable water to wash metals, thus condemning thousands of natives and farmers villages to thirst and poverty.
Written, Produced & Directed by Yorgos Avgeropoulos / Research Coordinator: Aggelos Athanasopoulos / Production Manager: Anastasia Skoubri / Director of Photography: Yiannis Avgeropoulos / Editing: Yiannis Biliris, Anna Prokou / Original Music by Yiannis Paxevanis / A Small Planet production for Greek Public Television ERT © 2009 2010 / World Sales: Anastasia Skoubri info@smallplanet.gr

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• Life For Sale
• Exandas
• Yorgos Avgeropoulos
• water market
• Chile
• Atacama desert
• Rio Loa
• chucikamata