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Our Right to Safe and Healthy Water (Ages 12-14)

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This playlist focuses on the state of the environment—specifically our water supply—and highlights issues of conservation and sustainability. Films in This Playlist Include Crapshoot: The Gamble with our Wastes Toxic Trespasses Waterlife The Water Bearer Pukaskwa National Park Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie

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Our Right to Safe and Healthy Water (Ages 12-14)

This playlist focuses on the state of the environment—specifically our water supply—and highlights issues of conservation and sustainability.

Films in This Playlist Include
Crapshoot: The Gamble with our Wastes
Toxic Trespasses
Waterlife
The Water Bearer
Pukaskwa National Park
Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie

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  • Crapshoot: The Gamble with Our Wastes
    Crapshoot: The Gamble with Our Wastes
    Jeff McKay 2003 52 min
    A hazardous mix of waste is flushed into the sewer every day. The billions of litres of water - combined with unknown quantities of chemicals, solvents, heavy metals, human waste and food - where does it all go? And what does it do to us? Filmed in Italy, India, Sweden, the United States and Canada, this bold documentary questions our fundamental attitudes to waste. Does our need to dispose of waste take precedence over public safety? What are the alternatives?
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  • Toxic Trespass
    Toxic Trespass
    Barri Cohen 2007 52 min
    This feature documentary is an investigation into the effects of the chemicals we are all exposed to in our daily lives. The film begins with the filmmaker Barri Cohen’s own 10-year-old daughter, whose blood carries carcinogens like benzene and the long-banned DDT. Then, it heads out to Windsor and Sarnia: Canadian toxic hotspots, with startling clusters of deadly diseases. The film presents passionate activists working for positive change, along with doctors and scientists who see evidence of links between environmental pollution and health problems. Carried by Cohen's passion for truth and her disarming openness, this moving documentary is essential viewing for anyone concerned about the effects of pollutants on our - and our children's - very DNA.

    Toxic Trespass is accompanied by a comprehensive guidebook for educators, activists and concerned citizens, produced by the Women's Healthy Environment Network.
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  • Waterlife
    Waterlife
    Kevin McMahon 2009 1 h 49 min
    Waterlife is a documentary film about the Great Lakes that follows the flow of the lakes' water from the Nipigon River to the Atlantic Ocean. The film's goal is to take viewers on a tour of an incredibly beautiful ecosystem that is facing complex challenges.


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  • The Water Bearer
    The Water Bearer
    Pascal Gélinas 2007 52 min
    The quest for fresh water leads Indonesians of Catholic and Muslim faiths to work together, along with Quebecer Gilles Raymond, to establish direct democracy. A road movie in which solidarity overcomes defeatism, and generosity wins over corruption.
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  • Pukaskwa National Park
    Pukaskwa National Park
    Bill Mason 1983 17 min
    This short documentary by Bill Mason explores Pukaskwa National Park on Lake Superior, providing a background of the park's geological past and plant life. The film also shows scenes of hiking, canoeing and camping. The result is to put us back in touch with the natural elements that our ancestors both fought and enjoyed.
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  • Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie
    Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie
    Sturla Gunnarsson 2010 1 h 32 min
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