From Hilltops to Oceans: Stemming the Flow of Water Pollution, Part 2 2006
Distributed by Films Media Group, PO Box 2053, Princeton, New Jersey 08543-2053; 800-257-5126
Produced by Films for the Humanities and Sciences
Director n/a
DVD, color, 24 min.
Sr. High - Adult
Environmental Studies
Date Entered: 12/12/2006
Reviewed by Buzz Haughton, Shields Library, University of California at DavisThis DVD is a follow-up to Stemming the Flow of Water Pollution, Part 1, done in 1994. The producers return to the venues they reviewed in the first DVD—Spain, Russia, Iran, Brazil and Fiji—to learn whether the environmental challenges they uncovered in the first film had been surmounted. Their report discloses mixed results. One especially encouraging outcome has been the cooperative gathering together of oyster farmers in Brazil, who have challenged river pollution threatening their livelihood with encouraging but limited response from local governments. In Fiji one large resort has inaugurated its own water pollution cleanup to protect what is left of a largely annihilated coral population.
This film ends on a somewhat hopeful note, but any viewer must see that environmental threats to water resources, both fresh and salt, remain a great threat to the safety of the world ecosystem in the twenty-first century.