The water front movie is the story of one community’s purpose to fight the seemingly inevitable path to privatization.

The water front movie follows an array of characters from federal financial consultant to local plant workers, and from city councilors to local activists in what becomes a kind of docu-suspense about one community's struggles to save its most basic resource.

In a last ditch effort, will residents save their municipal water tower from being outsourced to a private company with zero previous expertise in water management?

For Miller, a Concordia prof, activist and documentary filmmaker, Highland Park is a kind of microcosm for pressing environmental and socio-economic issues around water in our time. The questions the film raises are sure to stay: Who should determine the future of shared public resources? What alternatives to water privatization exist out there, and how can we maintain our public water systems.

  
     
   

 
     
 
Professor and author, shares solutions to the water crisis and highlights the privatization of water.

The water front movie is the liquid gold of the 21st century. While corporations urge local governments to privatize municipal water, communities around the world are organizing to ensure affordable access to this life sustaining resource. The water front movie is the story of one community's determination to fight the seemingly.