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Latin America: The Thirsty Cities
199355 minFilm: Documentary
Direction: Seaton Findlay
Production: Seaton FindlayCarl McMullinLyell Shields
Script: Seaton Findlay
Co-produced by Seaton Findlay Productions Ltd. and the Canadian International Development Agency in association with TVOntario for the International Development Research Centre.
Thirsty Cities looks at the problems related to water supply in Mexico City, Lima, Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo--conservation, pollution and sanitation. These are great cities of Latin America with proud histories. They are different from North American and European cities, but also remarkably the same. Many of the water issues they are grappling with today are on the horizon for large cities everywhere.
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Subject categories
- Environment and Conservation > Developing CountriesNatural ResourcesRivers and Bodies of WaterWater Resources
- Developing Countries > Environment and ConservationFisheries, Forest and Water ResourcesMexicoSouth AmericaUrbanism
- Urbanism > Foreign CountriesHousing and Urban Planning in Developping CountriesPublic UtilitiesUrban Life
Credits
- director
- Seaton Findlay
- script
- Seaton Findlay
- producer
- Seaton Findlay
- Carl McMullin
- executive producer
- Lyell Shields
- camera
- José Maria Ciganda
- sound
- German Cabillon
- editing
- Randy Dash
- narrator
- Augusta LaPaix
- music
- Larry Crosley
- Robin Pitre
- Dario Domingues