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Future of Water

Future of Water


ECO=KIDS EXPLORE: HYDROGEN FUEL CELLS

Join the Eco=Kids Explorers as they travel to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) with an all-access pass to learn about Hydrogen Fuel Cells. After an explanation and history of what a Hydrogen Fuel Cell is, our explorers team up with NREL testers and explain a modern Hydrogen Fuel Cell car. Students will learn how close we are to having them in our driveways.

Item no.: AZ00161233
Format: DVD
Duration: 16 minutes
Copyright: 2010
Price: USD 195.00

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ECO=KIDS EXPLORE: WATER TREATMENT

Join the Eco=Kids Explorer team as they teach students about water treatment. After a brief history of clean water usage, our hosts visit a water treatment plant. We learn of two types of transforming water into usable water: purification and desalination. The hosts demonstrate how to do their own water filtration experiment from a class room or home.

Item no.: PV00161235
Format: DVD
Duration: 20 minutes
Copyright: 2010
Price: USD 195.00

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ECO=KIDS EXPLORE: HYDROELECTRIC POWER

Follow the Eco=Kids as they learn the history of Hydroelectric Energy and explore the process of turning the down flow of water into usable energy. Watch our explorers discover the function of the turbine and water level at the hydroelectric dam, as well as the scale of a dam construction.

Item no.: PP00161232
Format: DVD
Duration: 17 minutes
Copyright: 2009
Price: USD 195.00

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OCEANS OF PLASTIC

The planet's oceans are rapidly becoming the world's trash dump. Every mile of ocean now contains an average of 74,000 pieces of plastic. A "plastic soup" of waste, killing hundreds of thousands of animals every year and as chemicals trickle slowly up the food chain. In California, conservationists are seeing increasing numbers of whales and dolphins die agonizing deaths. Their intestines blocked with plastics and other trash. In Holland, scientists researching the decline of the fulmar bird found plastic in the stomachs of 95% of all samples. In Germany, chemicals leached from plastic have been found to affect the reproductive systems of humans as well animals. What will be the long-term impact of this "plastic pollution?" Can anything be done to clean up our oceans?

Item no.: DG00161257
Format: DVD
Duration: 54 minues
Copyright: 2010
Price: USD 225.00

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MAPS OF THE GREAT EXPLORERS

This two-part series gives viewers insight into how maps were drawn and revised based on the voyages of the great explorers. Interviews with historians and cartographers are interspersed with reenactments and the voyages and discoveries.

The voyages of these explorers to the new world have provided historians many stories. Students can now see and understand the 'how' the knowledge gained from the voyages translated into the maps that explorers used. It wasn't necessarily a linear creation. Maps were added to, removed from and modified as more of the world was discovered.

Part 1 - Columbus, Vespucci, Magellan
The earliest maps didn't represent the actual land content of the world. Maps were updated as more of New World was explored. The maps of the Middle Ages, were mostly based on conjecture rather than actual discovery. With the expansion of the spice trade between Asian and Portugal and Spain, the maps began to change once again.

The explorations of Columbus didn't end up where he had anticipated, but his addition of the West Indies to the maps gave Europeans a fuller view of the world. Vespucci gave mapmakers a solid understanding of what was beyond the shores of the Atlantic Ocean. Magellan's expedition circumvented the world discovering a vast ocean and lands beyond America.

Part 2 - Cook, LaPerouse
The earlier explores provided mapmakers with an understanding of the major continents. Part two of this series highlights the voyages of British Explorer James Cook and French explorer Jean Francois de la Perouse. James Cook, an exceptional navigator and cartographer, circumnavigated New Zealand, explored the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, and crossed the Polar Circle being the first to understand the icy nature of Antarctica. He sailed across the Pacific Ocean, mapping the "Sandwich" or Hawaiian Islands, and visited most of Polynesia. The voyages of LaPerouse in the Pacific provided cartographers with detailed charts and illustrations of the shores of Alaska, the Sea of Japan and the island archipelagos of Micronesia and Polynesia. A member of his expedition, Barthelemy de Lesseps, traveled by land across Siberia and Russia to deliver these documents back to Europe.

Item no.: PB00161206
Format: DVD
Duration: 50 minutes
Copyright: 2009
Price: USD 250.00

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REAL LIFE 101: CRUISE INDUSTRY

The Real Life crew spends a day aboard Royal Caribbean Cruise ship and learns what it's like to work on a luxury liner. Join the Captain on the ship's bridge and learn what it takes to be the master of the vessel and how it operates. Meet the man responsible for overseeing one of the major highlights of cruising the food and beverage manager. Finally, visit with the Hotel Director, who talks about the many departments of the ship and what it's like to have a traveling home.

Item no.: JN00161139
Format: DVD
Duration: 18 minutes
Copyright: 2009
Price: USD 195.00

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FUTURE OF WATER, THE: PART 1 - THE WATERLORDS

Management of the world's fresh water supply will determine global political stability and economic development. Many countries will experience internal conflicts over rights to water. There is enough water for everyone in the world, however, the question is who should pay for it, how much it should cost, and who should receive it. For the first time in history, the majority of the world's population lives in cities, and supplying these cities with sufficient water will be a difficult task that has the potential to cause many social conflicts. This struggle for control of water has led to riots in many areas of the world including South Africa and Spain where water-rich regions hold power over water deficient regions. Disputes over water are also disputes between countries. This is taking place between the ten countries that share the Nile River Basin in Africa. In Asia, the fight over control of its large rivers is a struggle of life and death and will have enormous consequences for billions of people.

Item no.: LC00161002
Format: DVD
Duration: 52 minutes
Copyright: 2008
Price: USD 195.00

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FUTURE OF WATER, THE: PART 2 - THE NEW UNCERTAINTY

Climate change will greatly affect the world's water supply and societies in the future. We live in an age of climatic uncertainty and the future of the world's water supply will dominate political life and have enormous consequences for economies and cultures. Travel to Mali where lakes form and dry up each year and see how they confront the ever changing climactic conditions. Droughts or floods can be fatal to millions of people around in the world in poor countries. Uncertainty with water conditions will also pose new challenges to the world's most advanced societies. These challenges will affect international relations, migration patterns, and democratic systems all over the world. World renowned glaciologists speak about the drastic changes that are occurring in Asia and Europe due to glacier melting. Learn about the global consequences if Greenland's icecaps melt.

Item no.: HF00161003
Format: DVD
Duration: 52 minutes
Copyright: 2008
Price: USD 195.00

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FUTURE OF WATER, THE: PART 3 - THE WATER AGE

The uncertainty of climate change and the increasing need for water is bringing a renaissance of large new water transfer methods. Throughout history, transferring water has been vital to building civilizations. Travel to the Sahara desert and learn how Egypt's leaders envision creating huge towns and large areas of cultivated land by pumping in water from an artificial Nile lake to irrigate the desert. Examine Russia's plan to build canals for water transport to several countries in central Asia, which lack water. Travel to South America and see a complex hydrological system that guarantees Brazil and Argentina a sure source of water for the future. Scientists are studying ways to locate underground water deposits and transport this water to populated areas that lack water. Travel to Iceland and learn how they are using buses that are fueled by water.

Item no.: TY00161004
Format: DVD
Duration: 52 minutes
Copyright: 2008
Price: USD 195.00

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ON THIN ICE

The ice on the Arctic Ocean continues to melt at an alarming rate. On Thin Ice focuses on the life of the ice-dependent seals, one of the key species in the Arctic and one of the first to suffer as the icy platforms for which they rely, melts away beneath them. Without the ice, a seal's existence is threatened as it has no place give birth or rest. The polar bear also spends most of its life on the ice and as hunting grounds deteriorate, must roam greater distances in search of seal pups, its main source of food. We visit Svalbard, an archipelago lying in the Arctic Ocean, midway between Norway and the North Pole and explore a world in danger of disappearing. Climatologists predict if environmental toxins continue to be released at the present rate, all of the ice in the Arctic could be gone by 2050.

Covered by a thick carapace of ice, the Arctic's temperature rises twice as fast as rest of the world. Surfaces devoid of ice are darker and absorb more heat. Over the past two years the expanse of ice has dwindled by over 1 million square kilometers. Scientists have traded in their snowmobiles for boats in order to conduct their research. Major changes have already been evidenced. Summer ice for example has receded by almost one-third over the past 25 years and animals are finding it increasingly difficult to cope their disappearing habitat.

Item no.: DC00161051
Format: DVD
Duration: 25 minutes
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 195.00

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WILL THE NILE WAR TAKE PLACE?

Potential conflicts are brewing between the nations that share the Nile River Basin. The days of the Nile only nourishing Egypt's great demand for water might be rapidly coming to an end. Sudan, Ethiopia and Uganda are geographically located in the larger Nile basin and control the sources of the river. In recent years they have been demanding a greater share of the Nile's precious resource as demand comes closer to overtaking this finite supply. All 13 countries with access will have to come to agreements on how to share the Nile. Will this be the cause of the next war?

Item no.: HB00161166
Format: DVD
Duration: 52 minutes
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 195.00

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SPACE EXPLORATION - VOYAGE TO THE SEA OF MARS

Planet earth has launched an all out scientific assault on Mars.On the frontline,two NASA rovers began crawling across the surface of Mars, a planet once thought to be frozen and sterile. High above, Europe's Mars Express gazed down from orbit with a roving eye and an arsenal of high tech detectors. All three were scouting for evidence of one simple earthly ingredient - water. Find proof that water had once flowed across the dusty Red Planet, and the hunt for Martians - dead or alive - could begin in earnest.

Item no.: FC00160924
Format: DVD
Duration: 28 minutes
Copyright: 2006
Price: USD 195.00

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JOHAN: THE YOUNG SCIENTIST - FEEDING FRENZY (OMNIVORE, CARNIVORE, HERBI)

Johan sets out to the wild to look for the largest animal on land that eats both meat and vegetables, a type of animal later known as omnivores. He also learns the difference between herbivore and carnivore as well.

Item no.: GS00160889
Format: DVD
Duration: 12 minutes
Copyright: 2005
Price: USD 125.00

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JOHAN: THE YOUNG SCIENTIST PART 1: GOING HOME - ANIMAL HABITATS

Johan sets out to bring a frog back to its own habitat. Going from a snowy mountain to the hot saltwater summer beach, Johan finally found the little green amphibian's natural abode in the pond.

Item no.: PY00160891
Format: DVD
Duration: 12 minutes
Copyright: 2005
Price: USD 125.00

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JOHAN: THE YOUNG SCIENTIST PART 3: DROPS OF LIFE - THE WATER CYCLE

Johan takes a field trip traveling from gutters to drains and then to rivers and oceans, searching for the journey of rain water.

Item no.: JN00160887
Format: DVD
Duration: 12 minutes
Copyright: 2005
Price: USD 125.00

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JOHAN: THE YOUNG SCIENTIST PART 5: THROUGH RAIN AND SNOW - EVAPORATION/CONDENSATION

Johan learns the different states of water evaporation occur when water changes to steam; condensation occurs when steam changes to water; and snow the frozen state of water.

Item no.: YC00160898
Format: DVD
Duration: 12 minutes
Copyright: 2005
Price: USD 125.00

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JOHAN: THE YOUNG SCIENTIST - PART 6: A FISHY DAY - HOW FISH BREATHE (GILLS)

Johan makes new discoveries about fish. Not every fish breathes the same way. He learns what gills are and how they work. Sailfish are the fastest swimming salt water fish.

Item no.: HF00160886
Format: DVD
Duration: 12 minutes
Copyright: 2005
Price: USD 125.00

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JOHAN: THE YOUNG SCIENTIST PART 13: HAPPILY FLOATING AWAY - FLOTATION/SINKING

Johan must find a way to sink the helium-filled dinghy that floats in the air instead of on water. Can he use weight to help him?

Item no.: TF00160893
Format: DVD
Duration: 12 minutes
Copyright: 2005
Price: USD 125.00

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WATER WORKS - BIOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY: THE WATER PLANET

Examines water's crucial role in sustaining life on earth. Looks at the oceans in relation to temperature stability, the water cycle and the exchange of nutrients, oxygen and carbon dioxide between plants and animals. Even organisms on land carry an internal "ocean."

Item no.: AN00160831
Format: DVD
Duration: 30 minutes
Copyright: 2004
Price: USD 195.00

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WATER WORKS - CHEMISTRY OF WATER: AMZING H2O

Describes the discovery of water's formula and how the polar nature of water molecule gives it special properties. Capillary action, surface tension and water's solvent properties are demontrated. Hot and cold water, as well as change of state are examined.

Item no.: GE00160832
Format: DVD
Duration: 30 minutes
Copyright: 2004
Price: USD 195.00

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WATER WORKS - HUMAN USAGE OF WATER: TAPS AND TOILETS

A look at weather and the water cycle leads to the subject of water and civilization. The questions of where we obtain our water leads into a description of sources, espicially ground water. How is supply water treated? This program concludes with some major water issues, such as salinity.

Item no.: GM00160833
Format: DVD
Duration: 30 minutes
Copyright: 2004
Price: USD 195.00

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WATER WORKS - PRESSURE, DENSITY AND ARCHIMEDES PRINCIPLE: FLOATING, SINKING AND SWIMMING

Investigates how water's own weight is responsible for buoyancy and we examine the concept of pressure. A "Cartesian diver" shows why there is no stable state between floating and sinking, except on a density layer. The program concludes with some explanations of the physics of beaches.

Item no.: AD00160834
Format: DVD
Duration: 30 minutes
Copyright: 2004
Price: USD 195.00

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WATER. . .THE DROP OF LIFE - PART 1: BODY AND SOUL

The domestic daily water use of three families in different geographical locations in the world are shown. Different areas in the world together with the standard of life determine to a great extent how much water is available per household. Water is used from daily necessity to liquid extravagance, from simple chores to full-tilt recreation. Namibia is the only country in the world that purifies sewage water in a way that makes it potable, and then distributes it to consumers. Water is used in a spiritual role in different religious cultures, purification, baptism and cremation.

Item no.: TW00160125
Format: DVD
Duration: 52 minutes
Copyright: 2001
Price: USD 225.00

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WATER. . .THE DROP OF LIFE - PART 2: FUEL FOR FARMS AND FACTORIES

Explores the lives of farmers across the globe to see how water is managed and/or mismanaged. While irrigation seems to be the key to successful agriculture, it does however have severe drawbacks, such as over exploitation of existing fresh water reservoirs. There are industries that need huge amounts of water in their production process: paper, steel and beer. A Japanese steel company is leading the industry in its water conservation and environmental policies. A modern beer industry in Bangkok, Thailand uses water conservation and wastewater reduction techniques.

Item no.: PA00160292
Format: DVD
Duration: 52 minutes
Copyright: 2001
Price: USD 225.00

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WATER. . .THE DROP OF LIFE PART 3: PERILS OF POLLUTION

The issue of balance between Mother Nature and all living things; and what happens to that balance when man begins to intervene in nature's environments that depend on fresh water. How do species survive in the Nabib Desert in South Africa and at Glen Canyon in the USA. where the once wild Colorado River is obstructed by a large dam? There is a look at the canalization of the Rhine and the shrinking of fresh water wetlands in Holland, and the Ecuadorian rainforest where nature is damaged by oil production.

Concerns about the health of both scarce and water-abundant environments are growing. Reallocating fresh water to the environment has started, highlighting the evermore ominous and highly charged issue of pollution. Contaminated water has direct and important consequences for public health. In 1854, a cholera epidemic in Western Europe initiated a new awareness. Perhaps the most deadly and widespread, yet most preventable, waterborne disease is diarrhea.

Item no.: YZ00160593
Format: DVD
Duration: 52 minutes
Copyright: 2001
Price: USD 225.00

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WATER. . .THE DROP OF LIFE PART 4: A PRICE TO PAY

The nature and politics of water transportation affect a growing number of people and enterprises around the world who depend on the reliable delivery of water. In Africa, the ritual of water transportation is at the very core of life for the pastoral people who roam the Rift Valley - the Massai. The aqueducts of ancient Rome proved to be one of the world's most notable water transportation systems. The controversial issue of water pricing in diverse communities throughout the world is discussed. The film also highlights the price asked by traditional water bearers in a bustling enclave in the midst of India, then crosses over to Great Britain where wide scale privatizing of water takes place after years of floundering governmental control. At last, the film also travels to Santiago, the capital of Chile where an increase in the water price will be used to decontaminate the waters of the local rivers.

Item no.: LA00160609
Format: DVD
Duration: 52 minutes
Copyright: 2001
Price: USD 225.00

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WATER. . .THE DROP OF LIFE PART 5: WATER, WAR AND PEACE

This episode is a close look at why three immense river systems like the Nile in Egypt, the Amu Darya and Syr Darya in Central Asia were dammed. This episode explores the role that water plays in world crises; yesterday, today, and most certainly in the future, when m ore people might be driven to war over water. However, water is also imaginable as a stake for peace negotiations. The negotiations over the water rights are still tense. In the Middle East, disputes over water are as old as the stones of Biblical times.

Item no.: YR00160835
Format: DVD
Duration: 52 minutes
Copyright: 2001
Price: USD 225.00

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WATER. . .THE DROP OF LIFE - PART 6: THE ENDLESS SEARCH

With improved water management, water conservation campaigns and revolutionary techniques of water use, we can reduce the poential consequences of its scarcity. Technical innovations that create a stable production of fresh water out of seawater, brackish water and even wastewater are needed. New technologies are being developed that may one day help us preserve water both in space and on earth. Just as the Japanese farm many varieties of seaweed for its high mineral content and nutritional value, farmers along the coast of Europe and North America may one day farm native sea vegetables on a larger scale. In the Netherlands, sea lavender, also known as lamsoor, is a green leafy vegetable that is becoming common in more and more markets.

Item no.: SE00161210
Format: DVD
Duration: 52 minutes
Copyright: 2001
Price: USD 225.00

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NATURE KNOWS BEST - WATER- THE NEVER ENDING CYCLE

Water - one of Natures elements that enables us to inhabit the earth. We drink it, we swim in it and when it freezes, we ski and skate on it. We actually consist of the stuff. Where does it come from, and what happens when were through with it?

Albert journeys to the center of the recycling process: the sewage plant. He squeezes through drains, and explores underground canal systems. He meets the bacteria cleaners who clean up the mess and reveals leaks in the system.

Item no.: ML00160829
Format: DVD
Duration: 25 minutes
Copyright: 1998
Price: USD 195.00

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NATURE KNOWS BEST: THE OCEANS- SAVE THE WAVE

The Oceans: Earth's largest ecosystem. Source of the origins of life. The world's central heating system.

Albert surfs the waves, talks to whales, and rides his dolphin friend in this nautical documentary drama. The dolphin introduces him to the hidden treasures of the ocean. It's a fish eat fish world out there, until they witness the technology used to catch fish-drift nets, sonar systems, underwater vacuum cleaners, and enormous factory ships. Albert decides to stow away and reveals the facts behind the overfishing of the ocean. A third of all fish caught is fed to animals! Some seas are dying, as people dump sewage and chemicals into them!

Item no.: ZR00160551
Format: DVD
Duration: 25 minutes
Copyright: 1998
Price: USD 195.00

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NATURE KNOWS BEST: WATER AND WEATHER

Snow in Florida, floods in California! Hail the size of tennis balls in the summer. Is the earth getting colder, or warmer?

Albert checks out the global water cycles - which determine the weather. He also observes how the oceans act as earths central heating system, the importance of impenetrable jungles at the equator and looks at how man is affecting the weather.

Item no.: GS00160093
Format: DVD
Duration: 25 minutes
Copyright: 1998
Price: USD 195.00

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WATER WARS - STRUGGLE IN THE HOLY LAND

Could the wars of the next century be over water rather than oil or politics? This series focuses on three examples where the water has become central to regional conflicts and tension and where future water wars are most likely to erupt. Already demand for this most basic of resources is outstripping supply in some parts of the world and it is in these areas that the seeds of future wars have already been sown.

Item no.: FG00160753
Format: DVD
Duration: 26 minutes
Copyright: 1998
Price: USD 195.00

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