Yaku

About a couple months ago, I watched the 2010 Spanish film También la Lluvia or the English title, Even the Rain. The movie follows Mexican director Sebastián and his cast and crew, as they travel to Bolivia to shoot a film about Christopher Columbus’s voyage to the Americas. However, while they are in Bolivia, they learn about a much more pressing concern, water privatization, which because of its high costs, has forced hundreds to go without clean drinking water. In the film, you learn water in Quechua, a native indigenous language, means yaku.

This movie resonated with me. These issues, something as basic as drinking water, are prevalent today and often over looked. In a time of scramble for natural resources, we tend to disregard water as a limited resource; however, it very much is. All the metals, gasses, and gold would mean nothing without water.

According to water.org, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing safe drinking water, “884 million people lack access to clean water” and “3.575 million people die each year from water-related disease.”

I’m not asking anyone to drastically change the way they live. I simply just hope to bring light to an issue that is not often talked about… And maybe consider a 5-minute shower to a 15-minute one.

Needless to say, I highly recommend this film. You will not regret it. Watch the trailer here: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/eventherain/

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