Water Movie Ideas

Ron Duncan, manager for the Soquel Creek Water District and columnist for his local paper, the Santa Cruz Sentinel is suggesting some cool water related videos that are fun to watch and provide lots of water-related food for thought. I am copying his article in today's Santa Cruz Sentinel below, including links. Movies are also part of how undergraduates are introduced to water science on the UC Davis campus. My colleague Greg Pasternak, for example, is teaching an entire class "Water and Popular Culture" around water-related movies (see table below). And for another good groundwater quality story (besides "A Civil Action"), don't forget "Erin Brockovich' 2000".

The Spiritual Power of Groundwater!

Springs and seeps and sinks. I always am impressed by water simply appearing out of no-where or disappearing into no-where. Well, not exactly no-where - it is out of the ground or back into the ground. An ephemeral realization of that which is invisibly beneath - groundwater. I grew up in a humid temperate climate, so a spring was an every day thing, although large springs have always been particularly impressive. It wasn't until I moved to the desert Southwest that I first experienced the opposite - a stream disappearing into the underground of a sandy streambed at full speed (the Canada del Oro as it leaves the Catalina Mountains north of Tucson, AZ). My video is posted here: