Until today, the European Institutions have not given a clear answer. But cities, regions and countries are increasingly rejecting the water privatization model they had adopted for years and are regaining the public control over water and sanitation management. Up To The Last Drop follows the fraud and scandals evolving around water supply and lead to stories of change from active leaders and strong communities, where citizens know how they want their water services to be managed.
Up to the Last Drop
Director: Yorgos Avgeropoulos
60 min. Greece, France, 2018
Dialogue: Greek, French, German.
Festival theme: austerity and inequality in Europe
If the refugee crisis tested Europe’s humanitarian credentials as never before, the fallout from 2008 financial crash and the Eurozone crisis tested its reputation as the foundation of shared prosperity. With austerity measures in Greece and beyond exacerbating youth unemployment, the erosion of public services and standards of living across the board gave succour to movements beyond the traditional centre of politics. Many came together around the Eurozone Troika’s imposition of privatization. Over the same period, costs of living and gentrification in many of the continent’s largest cities have created a new precarious generation, wracked by poverty and debt and lacking the social contract and opportunities once available to their parents. Is Europe capable of restoring prosperity and equal opportunities for its most vulnerable people: the young and the elderly?