Finally, There’s Something in the Water highlights the ‘Grassroots Grandmothers’, a woman’s collective from Stewiacke who take on the Alton Gas Corporation over the plans to dump mined salts into a sacred river in defiance of M’ikmaq treaty conditions.
The blueprint for this galvanizing doc is the book by Canadian social/science author Ingrid Waldron, There’s Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities. This is not liberal propaganda. This is fact. Cold, hard, fact. Ellen Page and Ian Daniel's documentary about ecological disaster sites near Black and Indigenous communities in Nova Scotia is … There’s Something in the Water (2020) As any great documentary should, this is a film that consistently jumps between various different people that were impacted in some way by the ongoing issues that surround them. Pollution and its effects are out of sight and out of mind for the white majority in locations that Page and Daniel visit. “Certain … TIFF review: There's Something In The Water. Angry eco docs like There’s Something in the Water can be alienating, but it’s hard to watch the film without feeling riled up.
Oscar-nominated actress Ellen Page reveals a darker side of her home province in “There’s Something in the Water,” a documentary on “environmental racism” in Nova Scotia, Canada. “There’s Something in the Water,” based on the book of the same name by Ingrid Waldron, makes its first disturbing revelation with a simple … Waldron introduces the film brilliantly, laying out her observations, concerns and the thesis that government and business is choosing profits over people—especially people of color.
The previous reviewer obviously lacks a basic knowledge of the overwhelming statistical data which shows that marginal social status is directly related to the degree to which people are subject to hazardous living conditions. In this case, it is the environmental racism and water crisis’ that has been a problem in the world for several years now. Each case makes clear the currents of discrimination.