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Bullfrog Films
P.O. Box 149
Oley, PA 19547
Tel: 610/779-8226
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Testing the Waters
Toxic waste in our water - the attempted clean-up of the Niagara River.
58 minutes
(3 parts for classrooms: 22/21/15)
Color
Grade Level: 9-12, College, Adult
US Release Date: 1988
Copyright Date: 1988
ISBN (VHS): 1-56029-023-4
Produced by Lynn Corcoran
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"Spend an hour with Corcoran's documentary to better understand the issues and then to act..." The Buffalo News
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The Niagara River, famous for the Niagara Falls, receives hazardous wastes from industrial plants and form the largest concentration of leaking hazardous waste dumps in North America...before delivering drinking water to 5 million Americans and Canadians. TESTING THE WATERS documents a decade-long process: from the public recognition of a toxic pollution problem in the Niagara River, through the struggle to develop solutions, to the clean-up that has now begun.
The documentary considers the competing interests of industry, governments, and citizens -- each with a different answer to the question, "How clean is clean?"
It explains complex concepts at the heart of our emerging national hazardous waste agenda: risk assessment, "acceptable" levels of toxic chemical exposure, concentration of toxins in the food chain, how government regulators should act in the absence of hard scientific evidence, and the difficulty of choosing among hazardous waste clean-up technologies, all of them new and untested. The large scale program to clean up the Niagara River establishes precedents for the rest of the country, where thousands of polluted waterways remain to be cleaned up.
Study guide available
Awards:
CINE Golden Eagle
Ecovision
Cum Laude, Medikinale International, Parma
International Film & TV Festival, New York
Reviews:
"This powerful documentary...will stimulate discussion and some hard thinking at all levels from middle school to graduate school." Choice
"There is a renewed interest in water...the critical need is to spend an hour with Corcoran's documentary to better understand the issues and then to act in support of restoration." The Buffalo News
"A good program, suitable for use in junior and senior high school libraries. Recommended." Video Librarian
Related Subjects:
American Studies
Chemistry
Environment
Fresh Water
Health
Law
Social Psychology
Urban and Regional Planning
Water
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Pointless Pollution: We all contribute to nonpoint source pollution of our water!
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