A brand new documentary is bringing consciousness to the water disaster within the Oldman River watershed, beginning with its title: Dried Up, What Now?
The 30-minute documentary was produced by Alberta-born author and naturalist Kevin Van Tighem and videographer Yvan Lebel for the Livingstone Landownowners Group, a gaggle residents, landowners and supporters involved about the way forward for the Livingstone-Porcupine Hills space in southwest Alberta, the headwaters of the Oldman River.
The documentary will probably be proven publicly for the primary time on March twenty third at 11 a.m. at Previous Man River Brewing in Lundbreck.
The Livingstone Landowners Group says the documentary was developed in response to the extreme drought circumstances within the Previous Man River Watershed and fears the scenario may worsen this summer time.
Van Tighem describes it as “a grassroots venture, not a business enterprise.” He says “nothing will get individuals’s consideration greater than the prospect of operating out of water and the one supply of water in southern Alberta is the jap slopes of the Rocky Mountains.”
The Landowners Group says the Oldman Reservoir is simply 30 pervcent full in comparison with its regular degree.
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They hope the documentary is not going to solely increase consciousness of the impression of the declining water ranges but in addition spur dialogue about attainable options.
“Water safety in southern Alberta is an ongoing concern given the heavy calls for of a number of customers in a traditionally water scarce area,” LLG president, Norma Dougall says. “What we’re seeing now could be impression of gradual modifications over time which have made us much less in a position to handle with decreased water flows.”
The video presentation will probably be adopted by a question-and-answer session led by the movie producers, Lebel and Van Tighem.
The documentary’s premiere has generated a lot curiosity the tickets, which value $20 apiece, have already bought out, so a second displaying has been added for March twenty third at 2:30 on the Vertical Church in Pincher Creek and there are already plans to take it on the highway to exhibits different areas round Alberta together with Lethbridge, Claresholm, Calgary and Canmore.
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