Water Makes Money
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Water Makes Money |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German , French |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 82 minutes |
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| Director | Leslie Franke, Herdolor Lorenz |
| script | Leslie Franke, Herdolor Lorenz |
| production | Core film, in coproduction with La Mare aux Canards and Achille du Genestoux |
| music | "O-TonStudio", Hinrich Dageför and Stephan Wulf |
| camera | Lorenzo de Bandini, Stefan Corinth |
| cut | Hermann Dolores, Leslie Franke |
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Jean-Luc Touly, André Santini, Philippe Kaltenbach, Raymond Avrillier, Francois Carlier, Patrick du Fau de Lamothe, Hélène Valade, Gérard Chausset, Anne Bouzinac, Nicolas Tissot, Gert Hoffmann, Peter Rosenbaum, Anne le Strat, Hélène Valade, Manon Zakeossian , Raymond Avrillier, Gérard Chausset, André Ollivro, Marc Laimé, Julien Pondaven, Christian Ude, Rainer List, Evelyn Huytebroeck, Arnaud Pinxteren, Martin Pigeon, Nathalie Gaudier Medeiros, Jean-Louis Couture, Philippe Machetel, Séverine Tessier, Danielle Mitterrand, Loan Fauchon, Maude Barlow, Richard Girard, Wangui Mbati, Wenonah Hauter, Adriana Marquisio | |
Water Makes Money is a documentary by Leslie Franke and Herdolor Lorenz from 2010. It criticizes the model of the Public Private Partnership (PPP).
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The authors and PPP opponents provide indications that private-public partnerships in the water industry are increasing consumer prices and the quality of the water supply is falling.
The French water supply companies GDF Suez and Compagnie Générale des Eaux (now Veolia Environnement ) are at the center of the criticism . Using examples, primarily from France and partly from Germany, the economic consequences of privatization in the area of water management are shown. The filmmakers repeatedly denounce opaque financing agreements between municipalities and private utilities. The film also criticizes rising water prices with less maintenance. Alleged revenues of the municipalities from the award (so-called entrance fee ) are shown as loans of the municipal politicians to the suppliers, the costs of which are added to the water prices by the suppliers as agreed.
The topics are dealt with
- Controversy between public-private partnerships = privatization ?
- proven corruption and judicial convictions of local politicians and Veolia managers in France,
- the so-called entry fee , a payment made by the private PPP contract partner to the municipality at the beginning of the term of a PPP contract,
- Price increases ,
- Quality of maintenance of the pipeline network and other infrastructure in the field of water supply and water disposal,
- Development of water quality ,
- Effects of the use of water sources on the environment,
- financial risks for municipalities,
- the conflict between the (short-term) profit orientation of the private sector and the long-term sustainable safeguarding of the drinking water supply and quality,
- severely restricted rights to information and the possibility of influencing water management for citizens and their elected representatives during the term of PPP contracts,
- Loss of technical know-how in the municipalities,
- Personnel entanglements and professional changes of executives between positions in state institutions and private PPP companies,
- Financing of chairs at universities in France and Germany by private PPP companies,
- Remunicipalisation ,
- Criticism of the World Water Forum and the World Water Council , a think tank to influence the future development of the water supply and
- Citizens' petitions and referendums for the disclosure of PPP contract content .
Individual municipalities represent the various topics: Paris , Bordeaux , Grenoble , Brest , Montpellier , Braunschweig , Berlin and Brussels . The Turkish state government explains its PPP legislation. Paris, Stuttgart , Nairobi and Uruguay serve as examples of remunicipalisation .
Munich's Mayor Christian Ude uses the example of Stadtwerke München to explain why, from his point of view, PPPs only increase wealth for the municipality in the short term, but have a detrimental effect on the affected municipalities and their citizens in the long term. Using the Munich model of the promotion of organic farming by Stadtwerke München in the source areas of the Munich water, the film shows how high water quality can be maintained at the municipal level.
The film also sheds light on the professional fate of Jean-Luc Touly, a former management employee and works council member at Veolia. He was fired after he published how Veolia's high prices came about. In 2010, after a quarter of a century of PPP with Veolia and GDF-Suez, Paris returned its water supply to municipal management as Eau de Paris .
The following people have their say in Water Makes Money:
- Jean-Luc Touly
- André Santini, President of the Ile de France Water Board, President of the Seine-Normandy Basin, Mayor of Issy-les-Moulineaux, State Secretary of the Ministry of Public Service
- Philippe Kaltenbach, Mayor of Clamart
- Raymond Avrillier, former Deputy Mayor of Grenoble
- Francois Carlier, UFC Que Choisir (French consumer organization)
- Patrick du Fau de Lamothe, auditor
- Hélène Valade, director for sustainable development at SUEZ
- Anne Bouzinac, Chair of EAU Secours 31 , a citizens' initiative against the privatization of water
- Nicolas Tissot, Deputy Mayor of Toulouse
- Dr. Gerd Hoffmann, Lord Mayor of Braunschweig
- Peter Rosenbaum, councilor and representative of the citizens' initiative "Bürger Braunschweig"
- Anne le Strat, Deputy Mayor, Paris
- Manon Zakeossian, responsible for resource protection at Eau de Paris
- Gérard Chausset, Vice-President of the Bordeaux Municipalities Association
- Professor Philippe Valette, University of Toulouse II, Garonne specialty
- André Ollivro, President of "Halte aux Marées Vertes", former President of the Cergy-Pontoise water board
- Michel Merceron, former Ifremer researcher (French Institute for the Research and Exploration of the Sea), Vice-President Que Choisir Bretagne, Head, Brest Waterworks, Veolia
- Maxim Paul, Vice-Mayor of Brest, responsible for the water supply
- Marc Laimé, specialist journalist for water, consultant
- Olivier Cuzon, citizens' initiative for the remunicipalisation of water "Eau publique á Brest"
- Julien Pondaven, Cohérence Est environmental network
- Christian Ude, Lord Mayor of Munich, Chairman of the City Council until 2009
- Rainer List, head of water supply at the Munich municipal utilities
- André Leducq, tourist guide
- Evelyn Huytebroeck, Environment Minister (City and Region of Brussels)
- Arnaud Pinxteren, Member of the Brussels City Parliament
- Martin Pigeon, Lobby Specialist, Corporate Europe Observatory
- Nathalie Gaudier Medeiros, Councilor, Montpellier
- Jean-Louis Couture, former coordinator of the Euro-Mediterranean regional program for water management
- Philippe Machetel, Head of Research, CNRS, Uni Montpellier 2, Mayor of Saint-Guilhem Le Désert
- Séverine Tessier, Anticor anti-corruption committee
- Danielle Mitterrand , President of the France Libertés Foundation
- Loic Fauchon, President of the World Water Council , Veolia
- Maude Barlow , winner of the alternative Nobel Prize “Right Livelihood Award” 2005, President of the NGO "Council of Canadians"
- Wenonah Hauter, Food and Water Watch , USA
- Adriana Marquisio, President of the Uruguayan Water and Wastewater Union
- Veysel Eroglu, Turkish Environment Minister
- Hasan Z Sarikaya, State Secretary, Turkish Ministry of the Environment
- Wangui Mbati, lawyer, member of the People's Parliament, Kenya
reception
criticism
The Berliner Zeitung criticizes the lack of journalistic distance and thinks that a lawsuit in France against Jean-Luc Touly would be exaggerated in Germany with the slogan “Watch the film as long as it is not banned” in order to get more viewers, although Veolia has none I am making efforts to ban it. "Every scene with communal heroes is underlaid with harmonious splashing sounds."
Currently, the Veolia group in France is bringing a lawsuit against Touly, one of the actors in the film, for accusing Veolia of mafia-like and corrupt behavior.
The group's attempt to initiate a lawsuit against the German producers and directors failed because of the German authorities and the group's German subsidiary.
The “lack of journalistic distance” perceived by the Berliner Zeitung is associated with the many “clients” who jointly financed the film.
Positive voices
The film received praise above all for the filmmakers' extensive research. Thomas Pany writes on Telepolis : “The documentary filmmakers Franke and Lorenz have put together a considerable collection of material. Your conclusion: the privatization of water makes as much sense as social cuts: none at all. "
The press also credited Water Makes Money with the fact that the film not only denounces grievances, but also shows alternative courses of action and motivates citizens to actively participate: “'Water Makes Money' not only guarantees an exciting evening at the cinema. Because thousands of concession agreements between municipalities and private energy companies will expire nationwide in the next few years, the film could shake up municipal actors and encourage them to return energy and water supplies to municipal ownership and democratize them if necessary through referendums. "
Legal proceedings
On February 14, 2013, the Veolia group started a lawsuit against the French distributor of the film, La Mare aux Canards, and the former Veolia employee Jean-Luc Touly. Veolia had already brought a lawsuit against the directors Herdolor Lorenz and Leslie Franke, but this was not pursued.
background
Performances
It was released on September 23, 2010. The German-French broadcaster ARTE broadcast the film on March 22, 2011 for the first time on television. He denied rumors that the head of the energy company GDF Suez had called ARTE to prevent the broadcast, probably because there was a mix-up, Suez was suing ARTE in another matter from 2008. Since September 2010 more than 500 (cinema) performances have taken place: in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Spain, Italy, Canada, USA, Brazil and the like. a.
Authors of the film
Previous film projects by the two authors, which deal critically with privatization , are railroad under the hammer and water under the hammer .
The two authors regularly shoot so-called “committed documentary film productions under the motto By and for those affected ”.
financing
The company Kernfilm produced Water Makes Money with the support of many organizations (including ver.di , attac , BUND , Robin Wood , Naturfreunde ), initiatives and individuals based on the principle of crowdfunding .
See also
- Bottled
- Bottled life
- Water as a commodity
- Right of access to clean water
- Basic functions of existence
- The Big Sale , a film that deals with privatization in general
Web links
- Water Makes Money
- Trailer from Water Makes Money
- Film review in the electronic newspaper Schattenblick
- Critical examination of the cinematic aspects of the work
- Water Makes Money in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Unstoppable expansion of the world water giants? watermakesmoney.com, accessed March 23, 2011, bug on July 28, 2011
- ↑ a b c d e Torsten Wahl: Only municipal water splashes in . In: Berliner Zeitung , March 22, 2011
- ↑ a b Privatization - Blue Wonder in Braunschweig . In: taz Nord , October 7, 2010.
- ↑ Attac activist on water privatization - "I refused hush money" . taz.de, August 6, 2008.
- ↑ tkl: New on DVD: "Water makes Money". Watery business . (PDF; 164 kB) In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . watermakesmoney.com, January 22, 2011, p. 32, accessed March 23, 2011 (No. 17).
- ^ Un documentaire d'Arte dans le collimateur de Veolia. In: nouvelobs.com. Le Nouvel Observateur, January 13, 2011, archived from the original on March 22, 2011 ; Retrieved on March 22, 2011 (French): “Certains passages de ce film nous accusent de pratiquer la corruption et d'avoir des liens avec la mafia. On ne cherche pas à empêcher la diffusion donc il ne s'agit en aucun cas d'un acte de censure. L'instruction lancée établira les responsabilités et la matérialité des propos en question. A l'issue de l'enquête, les personnes impliquées seront convoquées. Nous demandons réparation. "
- ↑ Thomas Pany: The "free market" reflected in the Berlin water. Telepolis, October 30, 2010, accessed December 14, 2011 .
- ↑ Hans-Gerd Öfinger: Film Review: Water Makes Money. derFunke, September 26, 2010, accessed on June 16, 2018 .
- ^ Trial against the film "Water makes money". labournet.de
- ↑ Ban on the film is to be feared! watermakesmoney.com
- ↑ Water Makes Money How private companies make money from water - Topic: Geldquelle Wasser , programm.ard.de, accessed on March 23, 2011.
- ↑ Ralf Hutter: privatization document on ARTE - criticism, undiluted . In: taz. from March 22, 2011.
- ^ Website of the film , accessed November 25, 2011.
- ^ Herdolor Lorenz, Leslie Franke: Water under the hammer .
- ^ Herdolor Lorenz. In: Kulturportal. Kulturportal.de, archived from the original on March 23, 2011 ; Retrieved March 23, 2011 .
- ↑ Leslie Franke. In: kerntv.de. March 23, 2011, archived from the original on March 23, 2011 ; Retrieved March 23, 2011 .
- ↑ Herdolor Lorenz web business card at Arbeitsgemeinschaft Dokumentarfilm e. V., accessed November 25, 2011.
- ↑ Supporters of the film project "Water Makes Money"