How To React-Based Documentary, Flow: Love And Water

Mariella Nelson-Munoz Mrs.Fox Current World Problems March 13th, 2024 Pathos is being able to appeal to the audience's emotions. In the documentary, Flow: Love and Water. The people involved in this fact-based documentary, want the audience to respond to their emotions, and stories so that their fellow audience can connect. In this documentary, pathos can be found at the film's beginning, with this doctor named Ashok Gadgil. It brings out information about what can come from the water that many are drinking, and how this problem affects many people. This can be found at one minute and fifty seconds in the film states.“More than two million people die every year from waterborne diseases, most of which are children, below five years of age”(Gadgil).

The main source of our lives is ruining the future for today's children. Some examples of these waterborne diseases that are killing the majority of today's society include Legionnaires’ disease, Cyanobacterial Toxins, and Campylobacter. Without making changes in those waters that are affecting people daily, our population will decrease because of the outcomes of what the people put in the water and the outcomes from those actions. In the documentary, there is an appearance from a woman named Vandana Shiva, giving a testimonial about how the water has affected not only her but her community by not having efficient drinking water, this can be found in the film at eight minutes and forty-five seconds states. “All of these chemicals were designed for war, and the weapons used for mass destruction. Every amount of them came out of the war system, and now they are in our drinking water” (Shiva). People such as Shiva, are the ones being the most affected, showing frustration that the government is not showing effect on the outcomes that came from those