Movie Night – Written on Water

The Green Sanctuary committee of the Unitarian Church of Calgary, in partnership with the Permaculture Calgary Guild, invites you to join our 2017 environmental film series. Our next screening features the film, “Written on Water”. Written On Water looks at the global depletion of ground water through the eyes of generational farmers on the Ogallala Aquifer of the high plains of Texas. The Ogallala Aquifer runs from Nebraska to the southern reaches of West Texas. The present story of the aquifer is a complicated one of property rights, conservation, waste, laws, restrictions, beliefs, tradition and resilience. The Ogallala Aquifer level has taken a sudden plunge in the last few years. By pumping six times the rate of replenishment, the aquifer has declined 60 to 70 percent in just the last two years. The water could literally disappear tomorrow. This is a tragic tale playing out not just in Texas, but in aquifers around the world. With water truly being our life-blood, the film speaks to a dire need to formulate a solution.

Dessert potluck and coffee at 6:30pm, film at 7:00 pm.

Donations accepted and will be used to offset the cost of the public screening license.

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