In June, Orion Magazine featured a slideshow on Seattle’s solutions to it’s aging water infrastructure. Cynthia Barnett also shares some of the solutions that are taking place around the country to solve our aging water infratstructure. The below slideshow is part of Orion Magazines’ Reimagining Infrastructure series.
Check out the slideshow below.
Next-Gen Water Infrastructure from Orion Magazine on Vimeo.
The Reel Water Film Festival will be on Saturday, June 15th at the Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club. Potomac: The River Runs Through Us will be shown during the “Afternoon Splash,” which begins at 2:00pm.
What is Reel Water Film Festival ?
The Reel Water Film Festival is a non-profit event which takes a two-fold approach to combating water issues both at home and abroad. First, we host a film festival to showcase films submitted from all around the world, invite organizations to set up exhibits for the festival-goers to learn more about how they can get involved, and hear from film directors and experts about various issues surrounding water. Second, we donate at least 50% of our proceeds to water projects in developing countries and right here at home. The rest of the money stays within the festival to continue on for years to come.
All of the information about the day is on our website, including info about our feature film “Chasing Ice” and our “Dinner & A Movie” component. Please click here to check out the festival schedule. Click here for festival ticket information.
Potomac: The River Runs Through Us
The River Runs Through Us looks at the ways the Potomac River connects everyone in their everyday lives. Despite improvements, our nation’s river still faces a number of new and emerging threats including chemicals that we can’t see, urban development and population growth and new risks from climate change. As we follow the flow of the river, we learn about the need to protect this resource for ourselves and future generations.
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Length : 26 min
MPT
02:00 AM
The River Runs Through Us looks at the ways the Potomac River connects everyone in their everyday lives. Despite improvements, our nation’s river still faces a number of new and emerging threats including chemicals that we can’t see, urban development and population growth and new risks from climate change. As we follow the flow of the river, we learn about the need to protect this resource for ourselves and future generations.
Rebroadcast
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Length : 26 min
MPT
05:00 AM
The River Runs Through Us looks at the ways the Potomac River connects everyone in their everyday lives. Despite improvements, our nation’s river still faces a number of new and emerging threats including chemicals that we can’t see, urban development and population growth and new risks from climate change. As we follow the flow of the river, we learn about the need to protect this resource for ourselves and future generations.
Rebroadcast
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Length : 26 min
MPT
09:30 PM
The River Runs Through Us looks at the ways the Potomac River connects everyone in their everyday lives. Despite improvements, our nation’s river still faces a number of new and emerging threats including chemicals that we can’t see, urban development and population growth and new risks from climate change. As we follow the flow of the river, we learn about the need to protect this resource for ourselves and future generations.
Rebroadcast
Friday, May 03, 2013
Length : 26 min
MPT2
Potomac: The River Runs Through Us will air on Maryland Public Television during [fancy_link link=”http://www.mpt.org/bayweek/programming.shtml ” variation=”teal” target=”blank”]Chesapeake Bay Week[/fancy_link]
April 23 at 10:00pm
2013 Films – March 18, 2013
POTOMAC: THE RIVER RUNS THROUGH US (USA, 2013, 27 min.)
Endangered Rivers
Shown as part of the Rivers Program
Introduced by Bob Irvin, President of American Rivers.
World Premiere Each of us is connected to rivers in our everyday lives. Most of the six million people living in the Potomac River watershed do not realize that their drinking water comes from the Potomac. Since the Clean Water Act passed in 1972, the health of the river has improved. However, it is still in trouble and faces a number of serious threats: urban development, population growth and runoff from farms, pharmaceuticals and chemicals. The film follows the flow of the Potomac water from its origin, into our homes and businesses and back into the river. We become aware of the need to protect this essential resource and of how our wellbeing and that of future generations is intertwined with the health of the Potomac. Co Directed, Produced and Written by Peggy Fleming and Sean Fumage.
Panel discussion, moderated by Stephanie Flack, Potomac River Project Director, Nature Conservancy, with Bob Irvin, President, American Rivers; Hedrick Belin, President, The Potomac Conservancy, Potomac: The River Runs Through Us filmmakers Peggy Fleming and Sean Furmage, and Chattahoochee: From Water War to Water Vision filmmaker Rhett Turner.
Shown with CHATTAHOOCHEE: FROM WATER WAR TO WATER VISION.
Ticket/Reservation Info:
FREE: No reservations required.
Sidwell Friends School
Meeting House
3825 Wisconsin Ave., NW
Park in the parking structure at 3845 Wisconsin Ave., directly across Rodman St.
(Metro: Tenleytown/ AU)