Finding Water
Water video released for World Water Day
March 22, 2020
Finding Water: Healthy Land, Healthy Stream is a visually stunning and deeply informative exploration of the headwaters of the Oldman River on the eastern slopes of the Canadian Rockies, written and narrated by Kevin Van Tighem.
The video was produced with a grant from the Alberta Land Stewardship Centre’s Watershed Stewardship Grant Program, and extensive voluntary and in-kind contributions from members of the Livingstone Landowners Group.
The 25-minute documentary film is both a celebration of some of the most beautiful streams anywhere, and a cautionary warning about their vulnerability to our use of the surrounding land.
“We think of water as something that comes from a stream,” says narrator Kevin Van Tighem. “And it does. But it also comes to the stream. And our water security — how clean it is, how bad the spring floods get, how cold and abundant our summer water supply is — depends on how it gets there.”
Supporting our Spectacular Eastern Slopes Streams
LLG Board member, Kevin Van Tighem, together with videographer Yvan Lebel, has created a family of videos showcasing spectacular Eastern Slopes streams and highlighting important stewardship messages.
The videos include never before seen underwater images of westslope cutthroat trout and Alberta’s provincial fish, the bull trout - both of which are “species at risk.”
In addition to Finding Water: Healthy Land, Healthy Stream, the team produced five shorter videos, each focusing on a specific sub-theme.
The videos are presentation quality, vs the lower resolution version that is shared online via the above link.
See recent media coverage here.
Resources for Educators and User Groups
Securing our water future will rely on wise and responsible land use decisions in the mountain valleys where our rivers are born.
Teachers
Let us support your teaching on water, climate change, landscape health, hydrology or environmental issues
In addition to the videos we have a list of online resources, all of which are available on a memory stick on request.
Recreational Users
Information is also available to recreational user groups who want to help your members get more out of their enjoyment of the backcountry and be better capable of making good decisions out there. We're all in this together.
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