Live Poll: Poison in the Well

@Jessica What would I do without your impeccable eye? Thank you, Jess!

@Pencho15  Hi Pencho, my initial response to you is marked "Private" in purple at the top of my post so I don't know if you received it. I've never seen anything like that on Sprinkler before and don't see any way to remove it. 'Very strange. 

In case you can't see my initial post, I wrote: 

Thanks, so much, @Pencho15 ! I added the first three and also 'The Bay,' because I found several credible sources that said it's based on the true story of contamination from pesticides and steroids from a chicken factory farm. 

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/barry-levinson-the-bay_n_2005249

@rubyfruit76​ I received a notification that you wrote, but I could never read it as it didn't appear on my feed. Thanks for reposting.

@urbanemovies Hey, thank you, Urb, for the suggestion! This looks like a good one. I'll add it. 

@urbanemovies Oh, wow, I forgot about 'The East.' I remember seeing that back around the time it was released and there was a scene where some teenagers are swimming in a river and they have to rush to the other shore because the river catches on fire. I didn't get to read about The Toxic Avenger yet but I will soon. 

Thank you, so much for the suggestions! 

@dan_dassow I hadn't see Urb's suggestions so thanks for your post: getting emails of new posts is very convenient. I'll be able to add the remaining suggestions in just a few hours from now. I'll post and let you know when it's completely ready. Thanks again!

@dan_dassow Hi Dan, unless anyone finds any mistakes, I think it's ready. I do consider it to be suggestion ready and I proofread the new additions a few times. 

@rubyfruit76​ 

I'm not sure that Flint is about a company or corporation exactly?

@Peter_pbn​ Yeah, you might be right. I'll do a bit of research and if I can't unwind it enough to know, I'll remove it. Unfortunately, Flint has so many problems that it's hard for me to remember the details of all of them and I didn't see that film.

Oh, @Pencho15 , did you see the film? If so, do you remember?  

@rubyfruit76​ I didn't, I just found it doing keyword research. The only thing I know about Flint is from the Michael Moore documentaries.

@Pencho15​ & @rubyfruit76​,

I would think 'Flint' qualifies on the water contamination aspect, but falls short on the corporate greed element, as the movie depicts and the real-life situation was the result of goverment incompetence/mismanagement.

From Variety:

But, the TV movie still fits the question asked. Maybe you should use the phrase, companies & governments or change it from companies to organizations, so the scope is more encompassing.

Which movie about poisoned water, and the fight to hold organizations accountable, made you care about the issue the most?

@urbanemovies​ Corporations were actually involved, after all. I don't want to add government bc that doesn't apply to all on the list. Only corporations tie them all together -- I mean besides the pollution and contamination. Thank you, though!

@dan_dassow​  Hi Dan, The intro does apply to the Flint, as well. I did quite a bit of research, including using my access to academic databases, and corporations were definitely involved. For example, the engineering company, Lockwood, Andrews & Newman, settled the lawsuit against them for 25 million dollars. They were hired by the state to fix the corroded pipes and failed to do so safely. 

After I did some initial research, I was especially concerned about this statement from the intro: "The following films are all about large corporations poisoning the water that human beings cook with, bathe in, swim in, and drink."  However, after I looked further, even that statement is still accurate, even with the inclusion of 'Flint.' 

'Sorry that it took me longer than I intended to get back to this. Something important came up and I've been busy with that. I also have a bad habit of overdoing the reading: if something I read makes me even a bit curious, I continue until I have it figured out and doing that online makes it so easy to keep going down the rabbit hole. I should have been a detective, lol. 

Thanks! : )

@rubyfruit76​ ,

Thank you for the explanation. I had forgotten about the involvement of the the engineering company, Lockwood, Andrews & Newman. I was aware that they failed to fix the corroded pipes failed to correct the leaching of lead into the water supply.

@rubyfruit76​ ,

Thanks.

@dan_dassow​ Thank you, Dan! I love the emoji wells, by the way! Who would have thought they'd have water wells, lol. They're great.

And thanks for your help as I was working on the poll. : )