The Documentary Film & Discussion Series Examines the World Water Crisis, February 9 and 28
The Documentary Film & Discussion Series presents films on timely topics in the Ashland Library Community Room, 7:00-9:00 pm. Admission is free. All points of view are welcome.
The following special guests will be on hand to lead the discussion: Christine Fletcher, Ashland High School biology, marine biology and environmental science teacher, and Leah Marshquist of Transition Ashland, an effort to strengthen local economy and community. Both Fletcher and Marshquist are Ashland residents.
Thursday, February 9: Flow: How Did A Handful of Corporations Steal Our Water? (84 min.) Irena Salina's award-winning documentary investigates what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century: The World Water Crisis.
Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel.
Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the water grab, while begging the question "can anyone really own water?"
Is your local water supply plentiful or shortage prone? Where will water come from to meet growth and at what cost? Are you and your town prepared to transition to scarcer water supplies? Do you buy water bottled in a PET container? Where is it sourced? What’s in it? Flow invites many questions and looks at some practical solutions to the water crisis.
Tuesday, February 28: When the Water Tap Runs Dry (50 min.) The greatest impacts from climate change will not be warmer temperatures but water shortages. Learn how America's water infrastructure is incapable of handling these changes. There exist solutions that will make us rethink everything from how we use water, to where we live, to who owns water.
Every drop of water that flows through America's rivers or is stored in our lakes and reservoirs is spoken for. Now, America is over-drafting its water supply. How did it come to this? The answers lie in America's outdated water infrastructure, an inflexible water storage system, greater demand from an increasing population and the impacts of global warming.
In When the Water Tap Runs Dry, we will look at these issues and provide essential solutions based on a new vision of America's water infrastructure, and customized water rights agreements. If the water crisis is not addressed, the water tap will run dry for many Americans.
Is your local water supply plentiful or shortage prone? Where will water come from to meet growth and at what cost? Are you and your town prepared to transition to scarcer water supplies?
The Documentary Film & Discussion Series meets every 2nd Thursday and 4th Tuesday of the month for an in-depth look at current issues. For more information, call the library, 508-881-0134.
The following special guests will be on hand to lead the discussion: Christine Fletcher, Ashland High School biology, marine biology and environmental science teacher, and Leah Marshquist of Transition Ashland, an effort to strengthen local economy and community. Both Fletcher and Marshquist are Ashland residents.
Thursday, February 9: Flow: How Did A Handful of Corporations Steal Our Water? (84 min.) Irena Salina's award-winning documentary investigates what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century: The World Water Crisis.
Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel.
Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the water grab, while begging the question "can anyone really own water?"
Is your local water supply plentiful or shortage prone? Where will water come from to meet growth and at what cost? Are you and your town prepared to transition to scarcer water supplies? Do you buy water bottled in a PET container? Where is it sourced? What’s in it? Flow invites many questions and looks at some practical solutions to the water crisis.
Tuesday, February 28: When the Water Tap Runs Dry (50 min.) The greatest impacts from climate change will not be warmer temperatures but water shortages. Learn how America's water infrastructure is incapable of handling these changes. There exist solutions that will make us rethink everything from how we use water, to where we live, to who owns water.
Every drop of water that flows through America's rivers or is stored in our lakes and reservoirs is spoken for. Now, America is over-drafting its water supply. How did it come to this? The answers lie in America's outdated water infrastructure, an inflexible water storage system, greater demand from an increasing population and the impacts of global warming.
In When the Water Tap Runs Dry, we will look at these issues and provide essential solutions based on a new vision of America's water infrastructure, and customized water rights agreements. If the water crisis is not addressed, the water tap will run dry for many Americans.
Is your local water supply plentiful or shortage prone? Where will water come from to meet growth and at what cost? Are you and your town prepared to transition to scarcer water supplies?
The Documentary Film & Discussion Series meets every 2nd Thursday and 4th Tuesday of the month for an in-depth look at current issues. For more information, call the library, 508-881-0134.