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Thirst / produced and directed by Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman ; Snitow-Kaufman Productions.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Hindi
- Spanish
- Tamil
- Subjects (All):
- Water-supply--Political aspects.
- Water-supply.
- Water-supply--Economic aspects.
- Water-supply--Social aspects.
- Water resources development--Political aspects.
- Water resources development.
- Water resources development--Government policy.
- Water resources development--Citizen participation.
- Water--Law and legislation.
- Water.
- Water rights.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (62 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Oley, Pennsylvania] : [Distributed by] Bullfrog Films, [2015]
- Language Note:
- In English, Hindi, Tamil, and Spanish with English subtitles.
- 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:
- 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.
- Credits:
- Editor, Kenji Yamamoto.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: Snitow-Kaufman Productions, c2004.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed July 6, 2015).
- Publisher Number:
- bf-thirst Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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