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California dry water crisis in the golden state /

As fresh water sources dwindle in the arid American Southwest, California faces growing difficulty in managing and sustaining its irrigation infrastructure. This program analyzes the multifaceted problem, sifting through environmental and political factors and assessing a number of potential solutio...

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Other Authors: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation., Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm), Infobase.
Format: Video
Language: English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2009], c2008.
Physical Description: 1 streaming video file (22 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
Subjects:
Conservation of natural resources -- Economic aspects.
Conservation of natural resources -- Waste disposal.
Environmental geography.
Environmental protection.
Human ecology.
Human geography -- Environmental aspects.
Hydrology.
Land use -- Environmental aspects.
Landforms.
Natural resources.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
Refuse and refuse disposal.
Toxicology.
Water -- Environmental aspects.
Water -- Pollution.
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Summary: As fresh water sources dwindle in the arid American Southwest, California faces growing difficulty in managing and sustaining its irrigation infrastructure. This program analyzes the multifaceted problem, sifting through environmental and political factors and assessing a number of potential solutions. Beginning its fact-finding tour at the Water Education Foundation in Sacramento, the film highlights challenges related to levees, marine tidewaters, and endangered species in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. Controversial desalinization projects near Long Beach and San Diego are also studied, along with "toilet to tap" sewage water conversion in Orange County.
Item Description: Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on Feb. 22, 2009.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
California Water Crisis (3:37) -- California's Delta/Levee System (3:06) -- Water Supply and Endangered Species (4:25) -- Long Beach: Local Self-Reliance in Water Production (2:16) -- San Diego County: Water Importer (4:32) -- Recycled Water (2:24)
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As fresh water sources dwindle in the arid American Southwest, California faces growing difficulty in managing and sustaining its irrigation infrastructure. This program analyzes the multifaceted problem, sifting through environmental and political factors and assessing a number of potential solutions. Beginning its fact-finding tour at the Water Education Foundation in Sacramento, the film highlights challenges related to levees, marine tidewaters, and endangered species in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. Controversial desalinization projects near Long Beach and San Diego are also studied, along with "toilet to tap" sewage water conversion in Orange County.
11 & up.
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Closed-captioned.
Physical Description: 1 streaming video file (22 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
Format: Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience: 11 & up.
Access: Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.

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