Geoff Dabelko is Director of the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center. In this presentation, Dabelko describes how water quality and quantity are declining in many parts of the world, posing acute problems for communities and governments. This crisis, along with high levels of interdependence on shared water resources, has led [...]
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The Neuse River was named as one of America’s Most Endangered Rivers of 2007. Learn more: http://www.americanrivers.org/endangeredrivers
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It would be hard to match the damage done to the waters of the Neuse River by massive hog operations in the watershed, but if developers get their way, human sewage, stormwater runoff and habitat destruction could earn that [...]
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Keep Mother Earth clean
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Dean Kamen Invented a great water purifier to solve the problem of fresh water in all over the world. As we know the fresh and pure water is not unlimited. Actually it’s decreasing in quantity and quality day by day. Dean Kamen invented such a great water purifier which converts any kind of bad water [...]
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One of a series of eight 30 second commercials about the Collaborative Environmental Planning Initiative (CEPI) and its work in the Bras d’or Lakes region, part of the traditional home of the Mi’kmaw First Nation, Cape Breton Island, NS Canada
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Sewage is tourism’s dirty little secret. Our investigator had to swim through a lot of it to make this video showing how it affects coral reefs.
The first segment was taken near the Chankanaab Dolphin attraction on Cozumel, Mexico. The second was by Dolphin Discovery on Isla Mujeres, Mexico. The third was taken by the [...]
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City Water Supply (1941)
How New York City gets its water and how that water is protected from pollution.
Producer: ERPI Classroom Films
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Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W
Keywords: Infrastructure: Water; Environment; Health and hygiene
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I have done extensive amount of research on Hindu religious ceremonies that involve making offerings into bodies of water. Hindus revere the Ganges as an embodiment of purity, piety and spiritual rejuvenation. The Ganges and Her sister rivers all over the world are considered manifestations of the Goddess who descended onto earth for the welfare [...]
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Water is our most important resource (making up roughly 70% our bodies), yet we’re destroying it through our pollution. Fresh water comprises of only 3% of all water on Earth. 2/3 of it are frozen, and aside from 0.3% of it being on the surface, the rest of it is underground.
For example:
Over 360 toxic chemicals [...]
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We face a worldwide water crisis unless steps are taken to protect this most critical resource. This piece was written and produced by David Rothmiller. Music by Andres Condon. For more info: trickdogfilms.com
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