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Water detectives / director, David Springbett ; producer, Tracey Friesen ; writer, Heather MacAndrew ; a National Film Board of Canada production ; Pacific & Yukon Centre - English Program, National Film Board of Canada.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Water conservation--Mexico.
- Water conservation.
- Water conservation projects--Mexico.
- Water conservation projects.
- School children--Mexico.
- School children.
- Mexico.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (11 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Available from some providers with title: Water detectives/Les détectives de l'eau
- Détectives de l'eau
- Place of Publication:
- [Montréal, Québec] : [Distributed by] National Film Board of Canada, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English and Spanish with English voiceover.
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- In this short documentary, Grade 4 to 7 students learn that their local conservation efforts can have far-reaching results. This lesson is made concrete through the experience of youth in Matamoros, Mexico, where a severe water shortage led the city to take the unusual step of putting local children in charge of changing adult attitudes and habits. Thousands of schoolchildren were enlisted as "water detectives"--educated in concepts of water conservation, and encouraged to discuss the importance of proper water usage with adults. Kids were authorized to give "tickets" to transgressors who were seen to be wasting water, and the municipality followed up by fixing leaks and visiting homes. The result? Matamoros lowered its water consumption by nearly 20% in just one year!
- Participant:
- Narrator, Sabrina Perez Nino.
- Credits:
- Editor, Gordon Moore ; cinematographer, Rick Bennett ; music, Tobin Stokes.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: National Film Board of Canada, Pacific & Yukon Centre - English Program, c2007.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed August 5, 2015).
- Publisher Number:
- nf-wd Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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