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Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

Abstract

In the community where I live - Tucson, Arizona - about a third of our drinking water supply is pumped 300 miles uphill from the Colorado River, by a system of canals and pumps that consume 400,000 homes’ worth of energy every year. The rest is pumped out of local underground aquifers faster than they can be replenished. To say the least, water’s a hot topic around here. So when our nonprofit showed Flow - director Irena Salina’s 2008 documentary on the world water crisis - at the local independent theater, we expected that folks would be interested. When we had to turn away some 100 people after filling 500 seats (to a movie you can rent at the video store!), we realized - this is an issue whose time has come, and Flow dives right into the heart of it.

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