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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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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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Keeping Water Flowing with Mobile Phones (2016)

aka: 'Killers’ Part 2: Keeping Water Flowing with Mobile Phones

Subject

Engineering

Water pumps are a lifeline for many communities in developing countries. But how can you monitor them all to know whether they’re in working order? And can you collect data based on pump usage to provide...

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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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Resources: Aluminium, Cotton and Water (1994 Video)

Subject

Environmental science; Technology

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 49 min., 1998 sale: £195.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Examines three areas of natural resource use: the commercial and technical issues behind the recycling of aluminium cans, the processes by which raw cotton becomes a woven fabric, and water as a natural...

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Fresh Water World (1995 Multimedia)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

CD-ROM

A simulation of biological water quality monitoring of an inland water system on the Seven-Trent. Students interactively sample the macro invertebrate populations, use a key to identify the samples and then...

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Summer School Videocassette ‘Camelford’ (1993 Video)

Producer

Gail Block

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

NOT FOR SALE - COURSE MATERIAL ONLY, Videocassette. Standard formats. col.

Covers developments up to 1993 resulting from an accident in July 1988 in the town of Camelford, Cornwall, when a lorry driver poured 20 tonnes of aluminium sulphate into the water treatment plant that...

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Cold Water Supply (1997)

Subject

Civil Engineering & Building

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 26 minutes), £65.00

This film describes common water sources and the principles and practice of treatment, distribution and domestic installations. It focuses on direct and indirect systems and includes details of: treatment...

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