| The Water Front * Wednesday, March 25, 6:00-8:00pm * at Busboys & Poets 14th & V Streets, NW, Washington, D.C. * FREE EVENT* Food & Water Watch, a consumer rights group focusing on the human right to safe food, water, and fishing, invites you to join us at Busboys & Poets on Wednesday, March 25, from 6:00-8:00pm, for a screening of the film The Water Front. The film shows how costly water bills affected low-income people of color in Detroit and how those citizens organized to ensure their right to water. The Water Front focuses on the residents of Highland Park, a predominantly elderly and low-income community located within Detroit, that has suffered for decades from a depressed economy and years of financial mismanagement. When water utility rates escalated, causing residents to suffer utility disconnections and the risk of losing their homes, the people of Highland Park organized to ensure affordable utilities and their right to water. Their story documents the attempts at privatization of public water resources in Detroit and the consequent fight for basic human rights. "The story of the citizens of Highland Park, Detroit and their struggle for water access is one that should never have to be told in America," said Wenonah Hauter, executive director of Food & Water Watch. "In reality, though, it is repeated in cities across the country. As infrastructure crumbles and communities find themselves unable to fund necessary fixes, more and more individuals lack access to clean and affordable water while others turn to privatization. But over and over these communities find themselves up the proverbial creek, with long contracts that aim for profits, not better service. As regular people pay more and more for their water without ever seeing an improvement, the question of who controls their water � and how � is ever more relevant. The Water Front will show citizens who face similar problems that they are not alone, and will inspire people to organize, taking control of local water back into local hands." Join Food & Water Watch in screening The Water Front, Wednesday, March 25, from 6:00 - 8:00pm, at Busboys & Poets, 2021 14th St. NW, in Washington, D.C. The film will be followed by a discussion with producer Curtis Smith and Food & Water Watch Executive Director Wenonah Hauter. For the film trailer and more information, visit: http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/water/films/the-water-front Contact: Jon Keesecker at (202) 683-2463 or jkeesecker@fwwatch.org Take Back the Tap Campaign | Food & Water Watch 1616 P St. NW | Suite 300 | Washington, DC 20036 T: 202.683.2463 | F: 202.683.2464 |
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