Water the Drop of Life: Pt 1 Body & Soul
Water the Drop of Life: Pt 1 Body & Soul
Water The Drop of Life Part One: Body and Soul. Documentary about the global uses and abuses of water. Shot on location in numerous countries.
Water the Drop of Life: Pt 1 Body & Soul
Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations says "I think water is almost the source of life in every culture. Not only do we need it to survive, but they use it for rituals, for baptism, for washing new born babies. And without it agriculture and food and all these things we eat may not be on the table."
Water the Drop of Life: Pt 1 Body & Soul
Bali woman lighting incense, praying near rice paddy. Two Balinese men planting rice in paddy.
Water the Drop of Life: Pt 1 Body & Soul
Journalist Isabel Allende says "It has to do with everything that is spiritual to human kind. In all harvest rituals water is involved, because there would be no harvesting without the water."
Water the Drop of Life: Pt 1 Body & Soul
Zoom in on temple in Bali. Holy statuary, reliefs, pots at temple. High priest and female assistant preparing water to used in harvest blessing ceremony. Man playing drum, cymbal. Women carrying baskets of fruit as offerings, some carrying them on their head. Offerings being blessed with holy water. Bali adults and children being blessed with holy water and grains of rice. Women returning offerings to fields. Two cows pulling plow through rice paddy.
Water the Drop of Life: Pt 1 Body & Soul
Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop says "So, there's a reference, which we don't have in our society. We have a respect. We clean up our mess or we should. We have a respect about how water comes and how we should preserve it. But that spiritual relationship with the world, with the plant world, or with the ground, or with water, we don't have."