Water the Drop of Life: Pt 3 The Perils of Pollution
Water the Drop of Life: Pt 3 The Perils of Pollution
Water The Drop of Life Part Three: The Perils of Pollution. Documentary about the global uses & abuses of water. Shot on location in numerous countries. Originally shot on Super 16mm. Letterboxed widescreen version (more than likely 1.66).
Water the Drop of Life: Pt 3 The Perils of Pollution
Tilting TLS scenic rushing river, evergreen trees in BG. LS Colorado River valley. TLS woman in red dress holding umbrella, standing by building during rainstorm in Bangladesh. High angle MS bucket of water being raised up well. Traveling shot of stereotypical suburban home (house). LS industrial factory near river. MS rice crops growing in paddy. LS man spraying liquid from backpack in large traditional rice paddy. LS old church, buildings near farm in Netherlands, pan to Cavo Latuco chemical delivery truck driving toward cam, passing; LS/MSs truck being loaded w/ chemicals. TLS/MSs tractor speading fertilizer or seed in field. Traveling shot of old factories lining canal, coal freighter sailing in FG. LS smoggy industrial factories lining canal, ferry sailing in FG. Tilting Ms water pouring from above delivery pipe at factory, causing small rainbow to form above collection pool. MCU water pouring from valve on water tank; MS/TLSs black man using squeegee to move excess water from floor in factory.
Water the Drop of Life: Pt 3 The Perils of Pollution
Panning LS massive apartment complex building in Southeast Asia. MS toilet flushing. CU clothes in washing machine. MCU soapy water draining in sink. MS/CUs middle-aged white woman washing car. Scenic TLS/LSs Pacific ocean waves lashing against rocks, California coast. Actor/activist TED DANSON says "Not pollute the water. Not pollute the land w/ fertilizer & poisons & toxins. If you change the way you make things & how you live & you use less water & then you capture the water that you do use before it makes its way into the ocean, you will start cleaning up the ocean. So clean up the ocean & you will solve-- if you try to figure out how to clean up the ocean, you will solve a huge amount of environmental problems." TLS nasty, polluted brown waste water pouring into basin (pollution, environment, sewage). TLS two women washing clothes in village in Bangladesh, pan left to water pump. Tilting MS polluted wastewaster drain carved into earth in economically poor village. Tilting MS human excrement in drainage ditch that leads to polluted waste-water basin in third world village. MS several women standing in line, holding babies in hospital in Bangladesh; MCU baby either sleeping or dead at hospital.
Water the Drop of Life: Pt 3 The Perils of Pollution
Panning TLS/MSs old gravestones in cemetery in London, England; MS portrait of Dr. John Snow hanging from lamppost; LS pedestrians, coffeehouse on Broad Street, London; MS "Broadrick Street W1, City of Westminster" sign; Illustration of London map (city planning), 1800s, red dots signifying cholera deaths; MSs infamous old water pump on Broad Street, John Snow bldg in BG; CU sign-- "The red granite kerbstone marks the site of the historic Broad Street Pump associated w/ Dr. John Snow's discovery in 1854 that cholera is conveyed by water." TLS/MSs polluted water basin, sludge beneath bridge. Actor/activist TED DANSON says "We've had in Milwaukee, people died b/c cryptosperidian got into their water system which came from animal feces & they turned on the tap water & drank it." Former U.S. President JIMMY CARTER says "The biggest project that the Carter Center has adopted for the last 12 years is the eradication of a horrible disease called Guinea worm, which comes from stagnant pools of water w/in which the Guinea worm's eggs grow. And when a person drinks the water, a worm about 2-3 feet long grows inside their body & through a very painful process emerges from their body."
Water the Drop of Life: Pt 3 The Perils of Pollution
Traveling shot of several Indian men bathing on stern of rusted ferry docked on river. LS man & woman bathing at water pump by river home, cows wandering about. MS small pile of excrement (feces) at drain leading to polluted wastewater basin in Bangladesh. Ms children, infants afflicted by diarrhea at clinic in Bangladesh, one child receiving rehydration formula, another being weighed on scale by nurse. TLS/MSs men constructing, paving sanitary tube well latrines in village in Bangladesh; MSs children, inc one Hindu teenage girl, watching.
Water the Drop of Life: Pt 3 The Perils of Pollution
TLS/MSs theater company performing for outdoor crowd in Dhaka, Bangladesh (educational act about pollution); two teen boy watch play from perch in tree. TLS/MSs Hindu women learning about hygiene at workshop in village. MSs girl washing hands w/ ash & water. NGO Forum for Drinking Water Supply & Sanitation official S.M.A. RASHID says "Some solutions are really very simple. For example, hand washing. We teach the community people & the schoolchildren to wash their hands properly by soap. But if they cannot afford soap, they can wash their hands by ash b/c it is cheap, it is very much available & it is really helpful to reduce the disease from their hands." TLS/MSs woman emerging from latrine, washing hands in Bangladesh. MS woman pumping water from well. MS/CUs woman soaping, bathing, washing wild-eyed child in Bangladesh. Former Soviet President MIKHAIL GORBACHEV says "If we fail in our efforts to teach people to live in harmony w/ nature, no proper understanding of the ecological problems inc water problems can be expected; be it on a family or on a company level or on a scale of regions and states."