This documentary, by the name of Blue Gold takes us all over the world and is a story of exploitation, avarice, success, catastrophe, ambition, and accomplishment. Blue gold is split up into different sections concerning different topics, but in the end all of the sections are connected to each other, in some specific, type of way. Blue Gold begins by explaining a little about the topic of pollution and moves on to talking about how we’re draining all of the water out of from the ground throughout the world. During the documentary it gives a few examples of why this can be a problem, like when sinkholes, that have opened up around the world in cities which lead to the reduction of their watershed. Also, in the documentary, they talk to various farmers and explain that farmers are required to use a certain amount of water otherwise they lose their water rights. It goes on to talk about the relationship between deforestation and soil erosion, explaining how we’re slowly turning our world into a desert, when all we do is literally pump the water from the ground, to use it. The second section talks about urbanization and how big cities and communities are located in places that really, do not have any water. So, when a big city and or large community does not have water they haul water from another location and pipe it to the big cities and or large communities. A big city known as Las Vegas, is a great example of this because the location is basically in the middle of a desert, so they need to get a hold of water in some type of way. In the documentary, the narrator goes on to talk about various problems with urbanization and how it’s creating havoc on the water system because of the development of larger cities. After the topic of urbanization, the documentary moves along to talk briefly about dams, comparing the dams to rivers and rivers to veins. Suggesting that like veins, if you clog a river you will eventually, and you will also be killing the ecosystem that relied on that river to feed. The documentary ends by implying that cities should create a water limit and that there are things and situations that live within those limits. After it starts talking about the privatization of water and how water has been turned from a necessity to an asset hat has to be paid for. In 1992, it became the first time water was called a commodity by the United Nations, and ever since the comparison made by the United Nations, big businesses have moved in and taken control. After this topic in the documentary they move along to talk about the World Bank and how it has it’s policies which exploit the poor countries and help the big water companies. After, the narrator begins to list a numerous amount of cities and countries that shows who owns their water; Buenos Aires: Suez, Puerto Rico: Veolia, Jakarta, Indonesia: RWE/Thames, New York City is controlled by Suez, Seattle: RWE/Thames, Grand Canyon, AZ: Veolia and many more to name. In the last part of the documentary it welcomes us back with a message on how it is never to late to fix the problems show in the documentary. We can find some solutions to better the problem, we can also get some tips on ways we can change in our everyday lives to not waste so much water but to conserve it, and provide information on places that have accomplished to in get rid of the doctoral rule of the large water companies.