The Water Crisis

Season 7Episode 1660 minNov 25, 1980
The Water Crisis

Water, water everywhere...but just how useful is it? NOVA travels to the Adirondack Mountains where acid rain is killing many high elevation lakes; to the Mississippi River where chlorine has combined with natural and manmade organic chemicals to form cancer-causing toxic chemical susbtances; to California, where conservation recycling has had to become a way of life; and to Bedford, Massachusetts, where the town wells have been contaminated by industrial waste.

The Water Crisis has aired on Nov 25, 1980 at 9:00 PM
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