By: Priya MigneaultToday is World Water Monitoring Day and to celebrate Earth Echo was sending out a link to screen the documentary 'Brave Blue World' for free, which I participated in watching. The short film ran 48 minutes long and covered everything from water conservation, to human sanitation in both the developing and developed world. 'Brave Blue World' is a wake up call for the public and government to raise the standards on water protection and usage in all corners of the globe. We follow along as the narrator takes across the planet to see innovators working on water conservation issues, from the USA to Australia and many places in between. A few of the solutions that the documentary highlighted were an initiative in Kenya called Sanivation. Sanivation works to provide the local region with access to personal and clean toilets, which ensures adequate sanitation. The company responsible cleans out the toilets once a week and brings the feces back to their base of operations, where they turn it into charcoal. The charcoal is then sold for a profit, to cover their operation costs, which the customers use as a substitute for firewood. Not only are they providing sanitation to tens of thousands of people, but they are also saving 88 trees per tonne of charcoal sold. In Mexico at L’Oreal’s dry factory, local workers are working on reducing the amount of water their products and facility consume. The cosmetic industry uses an insane amount of water, but it’s not just in their products they also use water in the production process, which is why L’Oreal decided to step up and reduce their usage. They have done this by creating facilities that filter the water that had been previously used in their production, this has resulted in a system that is able to recycle 90% of the water. The documentary also talked about a company called All-Gas in Spain, which filters used water with algae. Algae grows incredibly quickly and has been filtering water for thousands of years. After the water has been filtered through the system it is then placed back into the city’s main water system and reused, the algae however is placed into a machine and converted into fuel that can be used in cars. This facility is the first of its kind in the world and although the innovator behind this says this method will not work everywhere it has the potential to generate a significant amount of energy in a small area. The innovator claimed that if the facility took up half the size of Belgium the fuel created would be able to power 30 million cars, which is the equivalent of 1/43 of Alberta. All of these inventions are groundbreaking, but they are only a few of the many mentioned in this documentary. ‘Brave Blue World’ is an inspiring and solutions based film that encourages people to take action on the issues surrounding water in their local areas and it is definitely a must watch in regards to environmental short films. The only part of the film that I did not enjoy was that it jumped around from location to location very quickly and it felt like it cramped too many ideas and stories into such a short amount of time. The film is available with subtitles in English, French, Spanish, and Japanese. Check out their website below to host or find a screening near you.
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