Water Week On TVO (March 21-27)
- 2.5 billion people in the world don’t have access to adequate sanitation – that’s two fifths of the entire world’s population!
- 97.5% of the earth’s water is saltwater. If the world’s water could fit into a bucket, only one teaspoon would be drinkable.
- A person can live a month without food, but only about a week without water.
Makes you think doesn’t it?
Monday March 22 is World Water Day and UN-Water has chosen “Communicating Water Quality Challenges and Opportunities” as its theme. To mark the day, TVO will air a week of water-themed programming featuring the world premiere of the Canadian documentary Water on the Table, and encores of films that examine political, economic and environmental issues dealing with water quality and availability. Get Involved is partnering with TVO to support this fantastic endeavor to spread water education.
Check out TVO’s Water Week schedule here:
Water on the Table
March 24th at 10pm (repeated March 28th at 10:30pm)
Is water a human right, or a commodity to be bought and sold like gold and oil? That’s the question at the heart of this timely new documentary by filmmaker Liz Marshall. Over the course of a year in Canada and the United States, the film follows Canadian activist Maude Barlow as she campaigns against the privatization of water and tries to bring attention to how industry is polluting the water table.
