Thirst

Titre
Thirst

Sommaire
A documentary without narration that explores how water and the ownership and control of water figure into community resistance to corporations rapidly buying up local water supplies. Examines the environmental and human rights issues associated with governments and companies making the world's fresh water supply into a commodity at the expense of local communities. Visits locations in Stockton, California, Bolivia, and India.

Date de publication comme intervalle
2004

Description matérielle
1 videodisc (62 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Note générale
Includes 1 insert of scene selections.
 
Special features: optional audio commentary by the directors; 10 min. interview with the directors; ten spoken word poems about water (21 min.); Bottle this! a 12 min. graphic audio essay by Gregory Warner; an 11 min. speech by Maude Barlow, Chair of the Council of Canadians, given in Kyoto Japan at the third World Water Forum in March, 2003; an activist toolkit which contains six pdf files.

Terme de vedette-matière
Water-supply -- Political aspects.
 
Water-supply -- Economic aspects.
 
Water-supply -- Social aspects.
 
Water resources development -- Political aspects.
 
Water resources development -- Government policy.
 
Water resources development -- Citizen participation.
 
Water -- Law and legislation.
 
Water rights.
 
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Vedette secondaire auteur
Barlow, Maude.
 
Kaufman, Deborah.
 
Snitow, Alan.
 
Yamamoto, Kenji, 1950 Mar. 19-

Vedette secondaire - Nom collectif
Bullfrog Films, inc.
 
Snitow-Kaufman Productions.

Résumé
A documentary without narration that explores how water and the ownership and control of water figure into community resistance to corporations rapidly buying up local water supplies. Examines the environmental and human rights issues associated with governments and companies making the world's fresh water supply into a commodity at the expense of local communities. Visits locations in Stockton, California, Bolivia, and India.

Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN)
9781594581120

Informations de publication
Oley, PA : Bullfrog Films, c2004.


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