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UMA: A WATER CRISIS IN BOLIVIA
Specs: USA | 2020 | 78 min
Filmmaker: Ana LLacer
Theme: indigenous, mining
UNITED BY WATER will have its Canadian Premiere screening at Water Docs 2018. Join us to see this film at our "Damned Dams" screening on Friday, April 13th at 6:00 pm.
United By Water (2017, USA)
“You can flood the path, but we’ll always find our way back.”
The 5 tribes (Colville Confederated Tribes, Couer D'Alene, Kalispel, Kootenai Tribe of Idaho, Spokane) of the Upper Columbia River unite on the water in traditional canoes for the first time since the Grand Coulee Dam flooded their traditional waterways 76 years ago.
Three indigenous communities in the Bolivian highlands fight to protect their water from diversion and contamination amid a national water crisis. The government has consistently supported the expansion of mining and granted miners unrestricted water access. Uma, the Aymara word for water, takes viewers on a journey from the tropical Andean glaciers and the highest navigable lake in the world to the mines of Oruro, and the vanished Lake Poopó.
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