About the Film

Water For Life follows Indigenous activists in Latin America as they face death threats and murder to save their precious water resources from mining and hydroelectric projects.

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Where to Watch the Film

Broadcast on PBS.

Education Screenings via Bullfrog Films with an Education Guide by RFK Human Rights.

Three Leaders. Three Stories.

Berta Cáceres

Honduras

In Honduras, Indigenous Lenca leader Berta Cáceres gives her life protecting her people’s sacred river from a Honduran hydroelectric corporation and a Chinese dam. Now Berta’s three daughters carry on her work.

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Francisco Pineda

El Salvador

Salvadoran farmer Francisco Pineda pulls the curtain back on a US corporation’s cyanide-water poisoning gold mine, and despite the murders of four of his fellow activists, prevails in getting his government to ban all metallic mining.

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Alberto Curamil

Chile

Alberto Curamil, an Indigenous Mapuche Chief in Chile, stops two hydroelectric projects planned by two multinational corporations on his sacred Rio Cautín. As retribution, the Chilean government frames him for an armed robbery. After 14 months in a state penitentiary, Alberto is acquitted of all charges. He and his tribe carry on the struggle.

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