The Water Crisis Nova : Season 7 Episode 16
TV-PG PBS 1h 00m int(0)
Aired: November 25th, 1980 @ 9:00 PM EST on PBS
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.