Water is the source of all life, and connects all living beings on this planet. This precious gift of nature is today in peril. Powerful forces led by multi-national corporations and international funding institutions are forcing governments all over the world to privatize water resources and convert water into a tradeable commodity.

India, reeling as it is under a huge fiscal deficit, is rapidly succumbing to the pressure to privatize. Several rivers have been sold to private parties. Global giants like Coca Cola and Pepsi Cola are siphoning off millions of gallons of underground water with no accountability to either the people whose lives and lands are affected or the local environment that faces severe pollution as a result of their reckless profiteering. An ill-conceived Inter-linking of Rivers project has been announced in the name of efficient use of water resources, that threatens to unleash a social and environmental catastrophe.

The people of India are however not mute spectators to the war on water resources. All over the country from Varanasi in the north to Chhatisgarh in Central India to Plachimada and Shivaganga in the South, people have flung themselves into mass movements to protect their fundamental right to water. The logic of globalization, of which the move to privatize water is but one aspect, is itself being challenged by the will of the people.

This film examines the various dimensions of the war on water resources in India and captures the spirit of people's resistance all over the country.