The Paths of Virtual Water

Synopsis

It denounces the trail of environmental destruction that made Brazil one of the biggest exporters of virtual water in the world. It reveals the social and environmental cost of water used in agribusiness, which travels the world as “virtual water”, emptying rivers, causing the extinction of the Cerrado and drying up one of the largest sources of drinking water in the world. Held in the MATOPIBA region, it also denounces the impact of the disappearance of drinking water on the lives of the “geraizeiros”, who live in the Gerais extreme in Central Brazil, descendants of quilombolas, Indians and fugitives from Canudos, in western Bahia, for more than 300 years.