About Water (People and Yellow Cans)

About Water is Austrian director Udo Maurer's new documentary film which tells the three-part story of the element, water, and its significance to human existence in three different parts of the world. A seemingly mundane 'given' - so often taken for granted - thus becomes a gripping and forthright tale of daily struggle and survival. In spite of water. Without water. With water. From the floods and inundation in the Bangladeshi Brahmaputra delta, to the daily each-man-for-himself battle over a few jerrycans of clean water in Kibera, Nairobi's biggest slum. About Water is a documentary Lehrstück that attempts to throw some questions, doubts and ideas at our views on water, which most of us take for granted and hardly ever challenge.