Water The Drop of Life Part 6: The Endless Search. Documentary about the global uses and abuses of water. Shot on location in numerous countries. Originally shot on Super 16mm. Letterboxed widescreen (more than likely 1.66:1) version.
MCU plastic bottle being held under water at Ayun Musa, Jordan.
TLS automobile traffic slogging through flooded street during evening rush hour.
White-haired cow grazing from dry, barren brush in drought-stricken Australia.
MS blanched, calcified bones & remnants of fur of dead animal on dry, parched earth, Australia.
Panning LS maid walking past luxurious indoor swimming pool.
Mexican woman hanging laundry to dry on line in slum. MS Mexican boy playing in flooded street gutter, pulling wet paper from drain.
LS congestion, traffic on ten-lane highway snaking through smoggy Mexico City, commuter trains traveling along divider.
MS middle-aged Chilean woman using steel rod as hoe in backyard garden.
Panning LS ancient facade ruins in valley of Petra, Jordan, man riding camel in mid-ground.
Queen Noor of Jordan (Lisa Najeeb Halab) says "It is an issue of the sustainability of our futures, all of us, as we are intertwined."
Shimon Peres says "You cannot be a dry person and you shouldn t be a dry country."
Journalist Isabel Allende says "Overpopulation, overexploitation of the resources, abuse of the environment is creating an intolerable way of living."
Panning low angle MS of spinning windmill.
MS Mexican woman washing Volkswagen car on street, wiping rear windshield.
MS Mexican woman washing dishes in open sink in slum.
Excellent slow-motion MCU drop of water falling into still pool, causing ripples, counter reaction.
Opening sequence.
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