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202590 minPGdocumentary

water-crisis sustainability

Watermark | 🌍 Environment

202590 minPGdocumentary

Water, essential for all life, is examined through human interactions and the implications of scarcity in a film by Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky.

water-crisis sustainability

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Channel: The Documentary Collection

Watermark | 🌍 Environment

2025• 90 minPG

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Water, essential for all life, is examined through human interactions and the implications of scarcity in a film by Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky.

Synopsis

Every living thing requires water. We humans interact with it in a myriad of ways, numerous times a day. But how do we consider the complexity of that interaction? And, unless confronted by scarcity, when do we meditate on its ubiquity in creating, sustaining and enriching life? - A film by Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky (2013)

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