We need to figure out some way to transfer resources, mostly in the form of technology, north to south, so that countries like India or China or continents like Africa have some decent shot at development without having to go through the fossil fuel era."
VOA: standard.2010.04.21
Water was originally planned to be shot in India in 2000 but both the location and the time of production had to be altered after Hindu hardliners disrupted the shoot in Varanasi.
The film maker, who last shot in India in 1977 for Close Encounters of The Third Kind, is reportedly planning to co-produce a movie with Reliance, according to the Times of India newspaper, that will be set in Kashmir, on the India- Pakistan border, a region whose scenic beauty is marred by ongoing strife.