The film is available to watch on Netflix, narrated by Liam Neeson and features Matt Damon, and Jaden Smith
WHO:
BRAVE BLUE WORLD: Racing To Solve Our Water Crisis, a brilliant and powerful new documentary that explores how new technologies and groundbreaking innovations can create a sustainable water future for the entire planet will be available to watch on Netflix October 21, 2020 (coinciding with Imagine a Day Without Water).
The film, which is narrated by Liam Neeson, weaves together previously untold stories from around the world and features leading water experts and high-profile activists Matt Damon and Jaden Smith.
Brave Blue World was spearheaded by Executive Producer Paul O’Callaghan, Associate Producers, Aoife Kelleher and Hope Frank, and directed by Tim Neeves.
WHAT:
Featuring dramatic stories and breathtaking scenery, Brave Blue World is a compelling, optimistic and fascinating portrait of an alternate future of our most valuable resource. It takes a stark look at how we got where we are today, then challenges and shatters some of the commonly held myths and assumptions about water while presenting revolutionary new ways in which we can create an entirely sustainable future for generations to come.
Led by O’Callaghan, the Brave Blue World documentary team travelled from the International Space Station to modern cities throughout five continents to chronicle how our relationship with water is being re-imagined. What they discovered will astonish viewers: There is no shortage of water; rather, we are running out of locally available, renewable fresh water. In exacting detail, each segment of the film highlights a bold new solution and charts the journey of the experts who are pioneering these techniques and inventions.
In California, we witness how Orange County takes a holistic approach to water management, recycling water endlessly and replenishing their groundwater reserves, while in Flint, Michigan we speak to Jaden Smith of 501cThree to discuss a water purification technology developed to filter and purify lead in the water. We also visit the Netherlands, where an innovative and mindful Dutch Company has developed a revolutionary technology that recycles water within the home – saving both water and money in the process.
As each segment unfolds and focuses on a specific aspect of water and sanitation, an overall narrative arc emerges – the story of heroic solutions and maverick “thinking outside the box” approaches driven by the imperative of survival.
Says O’Callaghan, “From a NASA research center, where we learned how astronauts recycle water in space, to a textile plant in India that is meeting 90 percent of its water needs from recycled water, to the world’s largest algae-powered, toilet-to-tank wastewater treatment plant in Spain, and then to a children’s home in Kenya, where we meet Beth Koigi, innovator and social entrepreneur, who is producing clean drinking water from thin air, at the Ark Childrens home during the droughts, we heard many inspiring stories. We’re tremendously excited to be able to share these with a wider audience and move water up the global agenda as an issue we can solve in our lifetime. “What I am most proud of is the diversity of global pioneers who shared their stories.”
WHERE:
The film is available to watch on Netflix
WHY:
O’Callaghan suggests that previous documentaries have portrayed the world’s water and sanitation crisis as one of apocalyptic doom and gloom, and it is his hope that viewers come away from watching Brave Blue World with an entirely different perspective. “We are able to spread the message that the situation is improving,” he says. “The technology is here, and within our lifetime we can solve these global problems sustainably.”
“It’s a great film. We all need to see it,” says Liam Neeson. “Every school and every college needs to see it. Every kid has heard of climate change; the film deeply connects with this. It makes water local – something so many of us take for-granted.”
About Brave Blue Word Foundation
Brave Blue World is a not-for-profit foundation focused on providing a platform for scientific educational storytelling and public engagement. The foundation was created with a view to inspire a shift in thinking around solving water challenges globally. Led by Water Technology expert Paul O’Callaghan, Brave Blue World Foundation has partnered with some of the leading global water innovators to produce a documentary that paints an optimistic picture of how humanity is adopting new technologies and innovations.
For more information: https://www.braveblue.world
Brave Blue World executive producer Paul O’Callaghan 
Brave Blue World narrater Liam Neeson
This piece was prepared online by Panuruji Kenta, Publisher, SEVENSEAS Media