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The Thames Barrier: London's Moveable Flood Defense
In 1975, construction began for the Thames Barrier, a moveable flood defense located on the River Thames, downstream of central London in the United Kingdom.
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Catalyst for Transition: The Anschluss, Kaprun, and a Dual Energy Transition, 1938–1955
This essay considers how the Kaprun project launched by Germany drove two critical but neglected energy transitions in postwar Austria.
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Waking the Green Tiger
This film follows a resistance movement to the building of a dam on the Upper Yangtze River in southern China, highlighting Chairman Mao’s efforts to subjugate nature in the name of progress.
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Watershed: Exploring a New Water Ethic for the New West
This film explores the issues facing the Colorado River Basin due to increased pressure from population growth, and the effect on an already decreasing water supply.
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My Mother, Oak
This film tells the stories of displaced people and livelihood changes in Iran after the construction of the Karun-3 Dam which submerged 12,300 acres of valuable forest with water.
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Water Wars: When Drought, Flood and Greed Collide
This film examines attempts by communities and experts around the world to protect their water resources in the face of global warming, pollution, and political conflict.
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People of a Feather
This award-winning film portrays Canada’s indigenous Inuit community and its dependence on eider down, in the face of dwindling eider duck populations as a result of man-made development.
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Patagonia Rising. A Frontier Story of Water and Power
Patagonia Rising gives voice to the Gauchos, a frontier people dependent on the Baker and Pascua river systems, who are caught in the struggle between Chile’s pro-dam business sector, clean energy proponents and the country’s rising energy demand.
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The Serre-Ponçon Dam and the Durance River: The Founding Act towards the most Regulated French Waterway
The construction of the Serre-Ponçon dam in 1955 was the first step in the development of dams in the Durance River, the most regulated waterway in France