Film examines water problem

Engineers Week

By: Stephanie Takach

Posted: 2/20/09

Drexel Engineers Without Borders, Drexel Green and the Drexel Sierra Club co-hosted "For Love of Water," a documentary examining universal access to clean water.

"Engineers Without Borders is involved with a lot of water projects in the world and the movie is about scarcity of water and about how to get water to everyone, not a solution movie but a movie about the problem," Prineha Narang, president of EWB, said.

EWB did a project in El Salvador regarding clean water.

"The movie is not so much only about developing countries, but how the bottled water we drink is just as bad as tap water," Narang said.

Irena Salina's documentary reviews the effects of unsustainable industrial practices and inadequate regulations on communities around the world.

"Engineers have the potential to create a profound effect on water resources throughout their careers, and so this was an appropriate time to showcase a very relevant concern," Kelsey Gibbons, co-president of the Drexel Sierra Club, said.

The documentary was shown Feb. 16 at 6:30 p.m. in the Mitchell auditorium in Bossone.