Water scarcity gets treated here as a political crisis, not just an environmental one. Director Irena Salina follows the fight over who controls the world's fresh water, from Bolivian communities battling foreign-owned utilities over rate hikes to Michigan residents fighting Nestle's bottling operations pulling water out of the Great Lakes region. Scientists, activists, and executives from companies like Suez and Vivendi appear on camera, laying out the case for and against treating water as a commodity rather than a public resource. The film moves through South Africa, France, and the United States, showing dried wells, shut-off taps, and the bottled water industry's marketing machine, while researchers describe the health toll of contaminated supplies in communities that cannot afford alternatives. Interviews with figures like Maude Barlow frame the central argument: that privatization concentrates a resource everyone needs into fewer hands. The film builds toward the idea that access to clean water should be treated as a basic human right rather than a market good.