Today is world water day and with three bordering oceans, four out five of the Great Lakes and seven percent of the world’s renewable freshwater supply, the wet stuff is Canada’s lifeblood. Perhaps some of the most disputed water resources in our country, the Great Lakes have been “polluted”, “cleaned up” and “polluted” again more times than you can shake a stick at. Need proof? Here’s a Great Lakes clean-up story from the December/January 1990-91 issue of Canadian Geographic. There are 42 Areas ...
A boat made of 12,500 plastic bottles has successfully crossed the Pacific Ocean. The “Plastiki” arrived in Sydney Harbour on Monday, after a four-month journey that began in San Francisco. The six-member crew hoped to draw attention to the problems of pollution and waste in our oceans. Read more
The Plastiki isn’t the first of its kind. Check out some other recycled constructions:
5) Television shoes 4) Tire floors 3) Houses galore! Beer cans, newspaper and more. 2) Recycled car runs ...
We drink water everyday, we use it to clean, we do cannonballs off the dock on the lake into it and we buy it in plastic bottles, trusting that its contents are safe. We do all this without even thinking about where the water comes from and how it arrives in our hands.
But it's much, much more than a thirst-quenching resource, it's one that the human population seems to take for granted.
Waterlife, a new documentary by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), addresses the importance of ...
In Canada fresh water is rarely in short supply. How could it be when we are home to the Great Lakes — a water resource that accounts for 20 per cent of the world’s surface fresh water supply?
But the supply is in danger.
Released last summer, director Kevin McMahon's documentary Waterlife tells the story of the Great Lakes and the millions of people who rely on their waters to survive. But it also explores the human threat to the Lakes. Explaining how, among other things, toxins, sewage and ...
Check out the Story of Stuff Project's latest video. This one explains how the bottled water industry convinced people to buy millions of dollars worth of a resource we can get virtually for free from the tap.
For more interesting videos from the project, including one about cap and trade click here.
