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“Running Dry - A Call To Action” is a twenty minute synopsis from the powerful documentary produced by Jim Thebaut.
Actress Jane Seymour narrates the show which features Shimon Perez, Mikhail Gorbachev and many other notable and knowledgeable individuals who discuss the worsening crisis which is killing thousands daily - and threatens to only get worse.
Click here to learn about what is going on - and why you need to care!
Here’s another video, this time from Cambodia, a country which has a huge water quality problem.
With 86% of the population unable to get decent sanitation systems in their communities, many young women and children are paying the ultimate price, succumbing to water poisoning. Click to watch the video.
This video comes to us from Cameroon, a country where water isn’t always where people need it.
In an attempt to provide clean drinking water AND education opportunities to girls and young women, local authorities have installed a well near the school... Click here to watch the video.
According to United Nations estimates, there are currently 1.2 billion people who do not have access to safe drinking water, and 2.4 billion who lack proper sanitation facilities. By 2025, the U.N. estimates that some 3 billion people will suffer the effects of water shortages. This short film takes a look at some of the issues and suggests several solutions. It was created by Leonardo DiCaprio and produced by Tree Media Group & Birken Studios. Click here to watch.
Tibetans have lived off the grasslands of the Tibetan Plateau for millennia but their way of life is being threatened. Asia Society has commissioned this exclusive video shot by Tibetan environmentalists throughout 2008, showing how as the plateau warms up, this environmentally harmonious way of life is now under pressure. Rapidly melting glaciers and thawing permafrost have disturbed watersheds for rivers, lakes and the pastoral ecosystems and the consequences are continental and beyond. Running Time: 11 minutes. Click here to watch.
Featuring narration from Emmy® Award-winning actress Jane Seymour, “The American Southwest: Are We Running Dry?” is a look at how the water crisis affects the American Southwest states and its escalating economic toll. It was filmed at the Navajo and Hopi reservations, on Capitol Hill and in Las Vegas for an absorbing discussion about conservation, water reuse, desalination, population growth and future water policies. Click here to watch the twenty minute “Call To Action” video.
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Running Dry - The Documentary
A global crisis explained
A world in need of water
A giant problem emerges
Water water where?
Peace through water?
A promise unkept
Expansion pains loom
Engineered out of nature
Confronting the crisis
“Tapped”
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“A World Without Water”
The world is running out of its most precious resource. True Vision's timely film tells of the personal tragedies behind the mounting privatization of water supplies. More than a billion people across the globe don’t have access to safe water. Every day 3900 children die as a result of insufficient or unclean water supplies. The situation can only get worse as water gets evermore scarce. Click here to read more about the situation at channel4.com.
In this Earth Focus interview, Jim Thebaut discusses his film "Running Dry: Beyond the Brink." The film looks at water scarcity and explores the impact that a changing climate will have on the availability of water for consumption, agriculture and industry. Thebaut draws on examples from drought-plagued countries like Australia to see how we can cope with exacerbated drought and other worsening climate conditions in the future. Watch now...
“Running Dry: Beyond the Brink” is filmmaker Jim Thebaut's latest addition to the Running Dry franchise. It will be a documentary that will be presented in theaters around the world. Its focus is the impact of drought and water scarcity and its connection to energy, health, agriculture, food supply and international security. Click here to watch the twenty five minute preview video.
"Senator Paul Simon Water for the World Act 2010" is an educational video regarding the depth and dimension of H.R.2030 / S.624 - "Senator Paul Simon Water for the World Act 2010". It now is in the House of Representatives (H.R. 2030), where the hope is that it will be passed during the current lame duck session of Congress. Click here to watch the seven minute educational video.
“Big River: A King Corn Companion”
“Flow”
This is the story of an American city in crisis but it is not just about water. The story touches on the very essence of our democratic system and is an unnerving indication of what is in store for residents around the world facing their own water struggles.
The Story of Bottled Water, released on March 22, 2010 (World Water Day) employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand - how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap. The film explores the bottled water industry’s attacks on tap water and its use of seductive, environmental-themed advertising to cover up the mountains of plastic waste it produces. Click here to watch the eight minute video.
“Blue Gold: World Water Wars”
“Water Voices”
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