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Water for a City: Nottingham (1985 Video)

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 33 min., 1998 sale: £55.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Investigates the water supply for the city of Nottingham. Explores groundwater supply, the Derwent and Ladybower reservoirs and dams; the Carsington Reservoir and dam; extraction from the River Derwent; and...

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A T TourÉ and the Peace Flame / Water, Water Everywhere (1998 Video)

Subject

Development studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Two films that are part of a series exploring ways of resolving conflicts across Africa.

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Bali: Down from the Mountain (1978 Film)

Director

Peter Ramsden

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

About the use of water in Bali and its relation to purity. Shows sequences of stages of the ceremony for consecrating holy water and of the three-month ceremony for removing the impurities of birth.

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Water Treatment: From Reservoir to Consumer (1981 Film, Video)

Director

John S Murray

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Shows the treatment processes needed to make water from a reservoir fit for human consumption. Using animation and live action the path of water is followed through a typical European treatment plant dealing...

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Safeguarding London Water

Date released

18 Feb 1929

Series name

Empire News Bulletin

Issue no

293

NoS ID

049647

Story no

8 / 9

Slade catalogue entry: Safeguarding London Water: Breaking the ice at the Metropolitan Water Board’s filter beds at Hampton during the Great Frost.

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Great Web of Water, The Central Valley Project (1991 Video)

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Free loan, Videocassette. VHS. col. 28 min., Free loan

Recounts the history of the Central Valley Project, California, and shows many of its components, including more than 20 dams and reservoirs and 1500 miles of canals, etc. that make up the great water system.

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Welsh Town Nearly Isolated. The Turbulent Waters of the Usk Overflowed at Brecon and the Flood Problem Became a Serious Menace

Date released

5 Jan 1925

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

1439

NoS ID

079949

Story no

4 / 6

GV flood water rushing around bridge, house in background, GV water rushing from under bridge, people on bridge. [SUBTITLE]: KEEP THE HOME FIRES BURNING GV water swirling around houses with smoking chimneys....

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Water Once a Day (1985)

aka: Water Once a Day: Town Women of Cape Verde

Director

Tamara Wyss

Subject

Anthropology; Environmental science; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 46 minutes), £20.00

In a poor suburb on the outskirts of the capital of Cape Verde, where one standpipe serves 3,000 people, and then only for three hours a day, Balila, who is 53 and blind, sells water. She has had a hard...

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History of Water Power, The (1990 Video)

aka: Water Power and the Industrial Revolution

Subject

Archaeology; Engineering; History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min., 1997 sale: £14.95 (+VAT +p&p) (World Microfilms)

Discusses the history of the use of energy in three areas: the energy source itself; the systems of power transmission; the application of this energy to various industrial purposes. Moving water was the...

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Water Power and the Industrial Revolution

aka: History of Water Power, The

see ‘Energy and the industrial revolution’

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