Exploring The Waterways And Glaciers Of British Columbia | Uncharted Canada | TRACKS

we call it Earth but our planet is composed mostly of water from oceans to clouds clouds to rain and rain to streams and rivers in liquid solid or gaseous form water in its infinite cycle drives our planet but there's a place in Canada where the great Saga of water has shaped nature like nowhere else welcome to the sacred headwaters [Music] [Music] the Uncharted Canada team set out to discover an element that is so abundant and yet and yet so enigmatic water while following the Fantastic Voyage of water on Earth Francois Xavier and Damian will try to uncover its mystery its importance but also its fragility an ambitious plan for the team who began their Trek where water begins its Journey on Earth the headwaters betrays the origins of water in Northwestern BC we have no choice but to go to the sacred Headwaters the source of the water that falls from the sky onto the small parcel of land gives rise to three gigantic Rivers the nass the skina and the stakein together these Rivers drain such a vast surface that some claim you could hide England in it and the English would never find it I'll take over whenever you want all right go ahead I have control we're headed for the sacred headwaters we're now flying up the clapan valley we're hoping to find a bush Runway to land on I'll drop off our friend FX there where he's meeting with the ideologist Daniel Nadu and I probably brought a canoe why absolutely absolutely he's brought canoes so we can begin our adventure on the water I'll follow you from up here and we'll meet at the Grand Canyon sounds good the objective the spirits the goal of this journey is to follow the Stickin River from its source in the middle of the Sacred headwaters until almost Alaska a few kilometers from the sea during the adventure we'll discover the culture of the Titan people they could be considered as the children of the Stickin River because they vote their survival to it for Millennia we'll then explore the Grand Canyon of the stakein river often compared to the Grand Canyon of Colorado that gives you an idea of the size of the Beast the adventure comes to an end at a place called great glacier nothing more to say the name says it all okay I'm gonna a bit higher on the way to the sacred Headwaters the two adventurers fly over a famous attraction of Northwestern BC Cascade Falls on the iskut river [Music] before arriving here the water is already made an Epic Journey of many days months maybe even years thank you in fact each of these water molecules began its Journey long before landing on Earth thousands of kilometers from here in the ocean as they absorb the sun's energy the surface molecules heat up and turn to water vapor which Rises into the atmosphere [Music] the humid air is pushed onto Land by the prevailing winds and when it hits the mountains is forced to rise it cools and condenses to form clouds and finally rain [Music] over 100 million tons of water fall on the Earth's surface every minute that's enough to fill Lake Titicaca in a week but in the sacred Headwaters a cluster of mountains in the vast Wilderness of northern BC when water falls from the sky the Earth rejoices yeah it's gorgeous The Landing should be fairly interesting the wind has really picked up until two o'clock isn't there a place to land I think it's the runway we saw on the map oh it could be yeah we'll head over that way then and I think I see Daniel you'll be happy to see another human there's not too many around here that's for sure that was interesting okay thanks for the flight you're welcome my pleasure [Applause] hi Daniel iFix how are you good you how's the flight great wonderful I see you about the canoe yeah I'll put it on my back it's pretty dense we'll get through we will and there is the clip pan it should be doable I'm clipped in yep it's pretty impressive to be at the source of three of the biggest rivers in BC right here in the few square kilometers around this perfect Simone you're right we're at the head of the three watersheds right to explain what a watershed is we could use a funnel analogy the Watershed is the area that directs the water to a common outflow in this case the mouth of the sticking River exactly and what's fascinating is you mentioned the fennel here several fennels meet yeah that's right a drop of water that falls a kilometer or two east or west of here will take a completely different path that makes us realize that what drives hydrology is gravity here we're about 1400 meters above sea level and the mouth is around sea level so between the two the water will follow its path which is the path of least resistance zigzagging around obstacles well speaking of the month of the Stickin we'd better head out that we'll never get there agreed tell me you have some canoeing experience awesome well it's it's been a few years but it should come back okay we'll see what we can do press was Xavier and Daniel head down the papen which flows into the legendary stickeen River following a river means experiencing its life from a small Mountain stream to a mighty Waterway adventurers will discover every step of the path the water takes on land before returning to the ocean and starting its endless cycle again head all the way to the right okay yeah to the right well done it's not over yet okay it's good good we get between them yeah you can tell we're close to the source it's not much water fix what I find fascinating about water is that since the beginning of the earth it's existed in practically the same quantity and is constantly circulating exactly a closed loop that was set in motion when the Earth was first formed in the um that really gets my imagination going exciting to think about the fact that the water we're floating on now could have been dragged by dinosaurs and floating their blood absolutely and you can even imagine that it used to be on Mount Everest in the form of ice that's right it's a Journey Through Time as well as space that makes me think that water in its three phases is closely linked to human history I'll give you an example during the last ice age since most water was concentrated in ice the sea level was much lower which allowed people living in Asia to cross the Bering Strait and populate North America yeah the fate of native peoples is directly related to water not only for their survival today but also for their arrival on the North American continent okay well we've got ourselves some Rapids so Focus right yeah let's go exactly slightly to the left like that there's a tree oh we're too much to the left oh [ __ ] get out if you can okay we should try to back up that's it [Music] [Music] turn them straight [Music] keep going nice sweet nice cone fix it's not the big waves it's the nasty little ones I think I just pulled a rescue operation over there when we were about to hit that big one and I rode left you handled that really well man would have gotten stuck there for sure I put it up after the Rapids did come yeah the water's really calm here that looks like a beaver dam I think you're right yeah we're on the reservoir of a beaver dam is incredible how much they can change the landscape I know you've seen how they affect the diversity of local flora and fauna they've totally transformed the landscape to their advantage there's a reason why we call them the engineers of the north yeah that's good yeah yeah that's a good way of putting it for sure they work hard to see you not almost where we are right now is a good example of water as a habitat beavers have used water to change their environment and adapt it to their way of life for themselves and a lot of other animal and vegetable species yeah exactly since the beginning we've talked about water as a source of life that reminds me that the NASA's rule of thumb for finding life in the universe is actually to follow the water which makes me wonder what is the property of water that makes it so important to life I'd say that the fundamental property of water for life is the fact that it's a universal solvent meaning that it's something that can dissolve many substances required for Life I'll give you an example involving rain water which is starting to fall on this pond when that water falls and makes contact with soil molecules it will dissolve certain salts and minerals that can be used by plants to grow that's a good example of water as a solvent but also as a carrier it carries nutrients that are essential to life listening to you I can't help drawing a parallel between the water system and the human circulatory system in both cases water circulates nourishes and Carries life-sustaining elements from one place to another yeah that's a good parallel so water is the lifeblood of the Earth [Music] a Francois Xavier and Daniel continued paddling 300 kilometers down the clapan into the stakein river crossed the wide Plains of the clistine valley and then survived the stakein Grand Canyon Rapids they would end up in a little village called Telegraph Creek amid the ruins of a dark Colonial past the taltan people's daily lives have a vital yet precarious connection to the river's Waters [Music] feel that sharp now long time ago when they moved with the seasons and even to this day even people live a long ways away the stinking river is still a gathering point where they could fish gather up their food for the winter or in case for the people that live in the cities they have their fish their traditional food and they keep their traditional ways alive and up and down this river right to where the kaltan and the sticky and join together you'll find Our People along this River and everyone has a unique different camp and along these camps there's uh different signs of where our people have been there for like 100 years they're free of blood yeah good for your blood some say it's bitter but when it's this late when they're ready to fall off they're really sweet they're no longer bitter some more down the trail right oh there's a nice Bush right there the way it runs is that the fish would swim up in the Stream this is kind of a rebound energy Circle where they gather all their energy back and they regain their strength and they'll shoot up the river again so generally where we set our net is right where they uh they come to rest I mean they come to rest they hit it like this boom it's like a car give me u-turn oh my god oh there's some live ones there yay what's Jack again man yeah okay so nice and steady awesome holy look right at the bottom section that's awesome holy smokes no not this one [ __ ] don't need Jack Salmon ready give it a little repair this those big king this rocket so you don't fix it then you miss lots of fish fussing your hole just generally gets bigger after a while and then then you got a ditch your net which isn't very good yeah not right now that one is hitting good that's my this is my summer job here and I love to do it I love being out here love being on the line and just love spending time with my dad and my nephew that's generally what I love the most because man my dad's not getting old but he's getting up there and I want to spend many years with him and I want to learn many of his things as he's learned over his use years and I want to I want to take that knowledge and show other people yeah stay connected to you here live in your culture keeping your tradition alive and all the respect your elders is what I was always taught why you give thanks to Tobacco the tobacco you always do you have any onions yeah I got stuff for me give thanks dude since we're done thanks to the Creator for um giving these beautiful fish pray for your family to keep safe along the river it could be this kind of tobacco it could be loose tobacco cigarettes as long as you're giving thanks with tobacco it's the only thing give thanks back to the river because it's actually a living breathing thing I should do it on my net pole because generally we're fishing right here so thank you Lord creator you're safe along the water it's really safe in the water people don't realize how much they have until it's gone don't even straggler behind that's a perfect one the scariest part was when Mount Polly broke open there and it was uh polluting all the rivers and kind of even scare here but now we have one of our old Mount Pollies in our backyard right Kristen it's not very good that's her that's her Headwater sacred headwaters this country is so vast but you know a lot of it is protected which is a great thing and and we have you know it's Zaza which is this massive Park connected to the canyon and then connected to spats easy and in between at the very epicenter of this whole valley the place that if you were to throw a dart at a darp a map of the whole stakein and hit the epicenter that would literally be taught again mountain in any other place in the world toddegan would have been protected as a national park I mean where else on Earth can you stop by the side of a public Highway take your child by the hand walk up a trail onto a beautiful soaring plateau and find yourself surrounded by 400 Stone sheep Canadians love the idea of the north but none of them go there and so what we've had to do to raise awareness of this very special place is to bring the place to the people through books and films and public presentations and so on Monty's played a tremendous role in that Collective effort I could be wrong but I can't think of any other filmmaker who is who was there as early as Monty was and is covered as much as he did yeah the sheep have been here bedded down this population here on the mountain is probably the largest concentration in the world of stone sheep they're the subspecies called thinhorn and to the West there's another thinhorn subspecies called doll and during the last ice age this mountain is say the next Mountain would be above the eyes and it would allow these say Stone sheep like here to evolve as their own kind of separate genetic strains there was no interaction at some time within any of the parameter species and so they became unique they lay out like this one on the Knolls right out on the tip of these Knolls with Cliffs dropping off like you can see before and it's such a great protecting mechanism because they're always aware of what's below them it's like a fortress in a castle their whole defense is escape so if they're attacked from below they just Escape out the back if they're attacked from Below on these promontories that stick out like this one they just go down into the cliffs most people did not understand this but I get in here and particularly when I'm by myself and after a little while I lose a sense of self and you just kind of become part of the landscape this whole egocentrics concept that death is such a terminus tells me a lot that people are parked of the flow but when you get up here it just the balance between life and death is a very foggy it's like when the clouds come in here at what point did you die and just become part of the clouds and what point are you still an observer [Music] thank you this is the Grand Canyon of the stakeem the largest canyon in Canada over a 70 kilometer stretch the stakein river has carved a 300 meter deep maze in the rock this is the next step for the Uncharted Canada team foreign [Music] foreign this Vertical World is mountain goat Heaven they've been living here safe from large Predators for thousands of years their muscular frame and Hooves equipped with gripping pads allow them to negotiate the most vertical of walls humans will always be guests passing through here approach carefully guys oh God wow many meters yeah oh there's at least 200 meters check out the power of those Rapids that's incredible tank is good on this River can you imagine only a few years ago people thought it would be impossible a series of 40 Rapids over 70 kilometers once you're on the river you committed it's one of the hardest descents in the world it's a bit like Mount Everest for kayakers so that's where you want us to go we'll take a closer look we'll set up some ropes and harnesses and get ready to make a nice descent to get closer to the stakein River Rapids the three men will attempt at 300 meter repel through the void down to the bottom of the canyon hey that's good you're still smiling okay at least so now now keep leaning and put the Rope on top aim for that corner okay here I go I feel really alive doing stuff like this oh yeah yeah it's amazing that's what rock climbing does it makes you feel alive the more I look at the river the more I keep thinking how is it possible that a river like this powerful as it may be could carve out a canyon over 200 meters deep let's go boys what we see here is the river's incredible erosion work over the years cool you have to realize that there's a constant battle between the force of tectonics more volcanic activity that tends to push the rock up and water in solid and liquid form that tends to flatten and create furrows so through the force of its impact the water will weaken the Rock and break off small pieces that we call sediment which will be carried off by the water it has an extremely abrasive effect here like sandpaper so there's a lot of sediment flowing down the sticky yes exactly and of all sizes you can see by the color of the river itself it's not transparent it's opaque that's an indication of its sediment though you also have to remember that the flow is heavy it's moving fast and there's a lot of turbulence there are very fine particles that will remain suspended in the water a long time but it also carries gravel and sand during major flooding it will also carry large chunks all that reshapes the landscape well let's take a closer look should we head down yeah let's go all right the adventurers resume their descent into the canyon depths a few hundred meters below ReSound some of the fiercest Rapids in Canada [Music] Francois Xavier Damien and hydrologist Daniel Nadeau have reached the bottom of the Grand Canyon unlike the Grand Canyon in Colorado no Dam disrupts the flow of the stakeem no tourists visit the rock maze that is carved out and frankly few even know it exists that's the magic of the stakein Grand Canyon in this natural setting it's it's what all the cards the power of this river is incredible yeah it's amazing the insane amount of water makes me wonder where it all comes from that's an excellent question fix in fact there's no consensus yet in the scientific Community as to the exact origin of water on Earth one thing we know for sure is that it's been here for a very long time the first sign of liquid water on Earth goes back 3.8 billion years if you can imagine theory about the origin of water is that it arrived on meteorites Studies have shown that the chemical composition of the ice contained in meteorites is the same as that of water on Earth they match up back then there was pretty constant volcanic activity so you have to imagine meteorites full of ice landing on Earth the ice melts and due to the heat it's expelled in the form of vapor this formed a layer of gas enveloping the Earth and over time volcanic activity tapered off and everything cooled down and condensed to form the liquid water that we see today speaking of volcanoes there's another theory by which the volcanoes themselves expelled a certain amount of water into the atmosphere exactly according to that theory volcanoes shot up water that was already contained in the Earth's crust so there's a dichotomy between the two theories does water have extraterrestrial Origins through meteorites or has it been an integral part of the earth since the very beginning I imagine it's probably a mix of both sources yeah that's quite probable yes implying that there's water throughout the universe that's quite common so I think there's no real doubt that there's water throughout the Universe but the real question is can we observe liquid water or water in its three phases what's unusual about planet Earth is that we're at just the right distance from the Sun where water can coexist in its three phases at normal temperature and pressure if we get closer to the Sun all the water would become Vapor if we moved away it would all turn to ice which is not suitable for the emergence of life so we're very lucky to have just the right balance yes exactly planet Earth is really lucky yeah from here the stakein river Roars down over 50 kilometers in an uninterrupted series of fierce powerful Rapids no salmon swimming up the stakeem can negotiate its Rapids which is why at the end of the canyon near the small community of telegraph Creek the fishing is always good so you stick your fingers in his eyeball you have more control over your slices and your cuts they uh they do their you get the fish put away watch out now mine's just flying by here can we keep your fish clean when you're skinning you've got in your fish and then once you get it back and flare and stuff she she won't complain [Music] thank you well what did you say it took me about three years to learn the perfect fillet filet and fish is just like anything else in the process it takes time to learn is this a dry fish or dry fish yet and got fish and clean fish and hang fish then cut fish again oh and then you salt them and then you hang them I forgot to put the salt in there as you see here she points her blade at a certain angle and then she comes out with the perfect filet and every time and then when I do mine mine comes out in like chicken strips he observed just to yeah just the way her knife and her blade sits on the meat me as a young person I'll still always be in the learning process and you see how they're hanging their body style is heading up River okay they're carrying on with their Journey that's why you hang them just certainly you hang fish when you bring them out of the river well this year fish was really late and it goes to wonder you know are they really can't fight that pollution that's in the ocean anymore or are we are they overfishing with the commercial license fishing down the river uh you think of all this stuff because we tie in with the river so closely and with the animals so closely that this is part of our food chain this is who we are it talks about your identity tell down people well a fish these the fish that you see us doing has been done like this for hundreds of years by our elders and as hard work but it's fun work on the way to grab some more now they're telling us we can't eat fish out of this Lake in the olive oil Lake they didn't see anything of the Lakes Beyond this but I mean the logic would tell you not to eat the fish out of the Lakes below these Lakes this is all water this whole area is water everywhere you look it's a tributary you know like that's why we call this the sacred Headwaters then you got this mine red Chris sitting right smack dab in the middle of that our water's poisoned I mean I don't care what you say about it you could see it's contaminated the bottom line is just poisoned if we can't eat it right we can't eat the fish the main thing that's happening on this mountain is this uh copper gold mine and it's low-grade copper which means that they have to take a huge amount of materials out to get anything worth selling so what we see is the overburden that's being stacked after the ore has been extracted out of it but the thing that really is going to kill this mountain is they're putting two dams one on the North side which is already in but they're proposing for the South Side a dam that's 330 meters and it's the same company that brought this uh disaster called Mount poly on August 4th 2014 near the village of likely BC the wall of one of Mount Paulie's mines tailing ponds gave way into the weight of the Wastewater and 24 million liters of slurry ended up in the surrounding waterways it was one of the worst ecological disasters in Canadian history the tardigan tailing Pond of similar design to that of Mount poly is considered by many to be a ticking Time Bomb if and when and they do say when everybody says when that Dam gives way it will take out and lay in layers of Arsenic and heavy metals all the way down that Valley it'll come it'll turn go into these lakes and then all of these Lakes going out to the coast it's not as if this mine site is isolated you know if something goes wrong it'll go very wrong you know there's four thousand open pit copper and gold mines in the world and to my mind putting one on tonic and Mountain home to the largest population of a charismatic amulate species of stone sheep in the world was rather like drilling for oil and assisting Chapel they've brought easily 200 kilometers or more of high power transmission lines right through the middle of the most virgin area of Northern Canada for one mind and that mine will be gone in 25 years from now it's insane truly Wild s have any number of values I mean obviously spiritual but also economic don't forget that travel and tourism is a 3.5 trillion dollar business around the world it is the biggest economic engine on the planet the entire capitalization of every Mining Company in the world doesn't add up to a trillion dollars our landscape is who we are it's what makes the spirit of this place and so I don't care how much you want to tell me we become demographically an urban place you cannot be Canadian in a sense if you don't feel and listen to the whispered messages of the Wild imagine you know I'm going to be gone one of these days and for 12 000 years you know if this water has memory it's seen so many of us come and go but you can't even say that it's seen so many of us come and go because you know I've been drinking this water for 10 years so therefore I'm upwards to 80 of this water like you know the Moose is drinking the same water that comes from the clouds it goes down to the ocean it comes back and it falls here and we're all drinking the same water so therefore we're all the same thing we're the water we are the water it's really amazing [Music] oh oh wow oh wow you can see all the sediments there Damien Francois Xavier and their guest hydrologist Daniel Nadeau are on Route for the final chapter of their River exploration great Glacier Provincial Park they took off from the small village of telegraph Creek the mouth of the Grand Canyon and are now flying over the river toward the ocean the great Glacier awaits a few kilometers from the Alaskan border border there are some incredible meanders down there the river kind of disappears into the forest wow that Valley is totally u-shaped that's a sign of a glacial Valley yeah it's really perfect what I love is the sense reflection on the Stickin it's fantastic Damian you'll notice how much the landscape has opened up Mr King's bed is much wider than we saw earlier in the canyon if you were right at the bottom of the Watershed near the outflow where the Stickin river flows into the Pacific Ocean higher up in the Watershed we were in an area where the river scraped away sediment from the landscape however here we're in an area where it deposits it and you'll notice lots of sand banks here and there I'll give you an example with this bottle I brought you see that the water is fairly clear here but the main thing is how much deposit there is at the bottom that's water from the sticky yes I took it from the staking just now I'll show you something this is an example of calm water where there's a deposit when it's turbulence when the water is constantly churning in the narrow sections we'll see to what extent the sediment carried off by the water remains in suspension I'll show you what happens when I shake it up notice that at the bottom the sediment is deposited according to its size the largest particles first follow gradually by everything else so as the water slows down the larger sediments will be deposited than the smaller ones and so on exactly have you noticed how the Waters of the stakein are not really transparent it's a bit like this water you know the water column is still loaded with fine sediment which takes a really long time to settle this sediment will most likely end up in the ocean as is through the sticking Delta over there do you see those burgs oh well we're getting to the great Glacier you can see the glacier right there yeah you can see it right at the end of the valley it's almost cereal a lake full of icebergs in the middle of the forest we need to find a spot where there aren't too many icebergs what I'm actually gonna do I'm just gonna come through those two burgs right there and then land [Applause] foreign [Music] [Music] we touched down between two icebergs our pilot is really skilled and we are now surrounded by sandbanks icebergs and the sun we are so spoiled it's really hard to describe we're on a lake filled with icebergs that's something I've never seen before and the idea of exploring that Glacier is something else it's really incredible [Music] separated from the stakein river by a thin strip of land that was formerly the front edge of the ice tongue great Glacier Lake Bears witness to the glacier's former immensity the adventurers make their way among the icebergs littering the surface of the lake a crystalline fairy tale World created unknowingly by human hands foreign look at the iceberg there it's beautiful incredible huh during our adventure we've explored two phases of water gases and liquid I find it quite a proposed to win our adventure with the last face this solid phase in the form of ice in terms of fresh water stocks it's the most important phase in the water cycle did you know that of all the water available on Earth only three percent is fresh water and of that three percent sixty nine percent is contained in the solid face meaning in the form of ice or snow and thirty percent is contained in the ground did you hear that cracking sound something correct yeah yeah it is cracking all around us thirty percent is contained in the ground and only one percent is available in the form of surface water so one percent of three percent of the total amount of water so not much water is directly available for consumption we're floating on this Lake but not that long ago the glacier covered the entire surface of the lake I heard there's a Titan legend about how the glacier extended so far that it met the other Glacier that came from the other side of the valley it formed the kind of icebridge across the valley and according to the legend that's where the final battle took place between the tatan and the clingit who lived farther down the valley it's funny to think that if the battle had taken place now in the same spot they'd have fought in the water when I check out the cave guys you go I'll be happy to watch happy hat Daniel yeah I'll help if you want I could hoist you up oh host me right up yeah okay let's try like this good one two three yeah but you'll have to hold on to me because I've got you it's going to slip what service I almost feel like I'm walking on water the ice is really soaked with water here yeah you can see that it's really melting yeah it's melting really fast did you know that part of this water will evaporate rise into the atmosphere and act as a greenhouse gas we often forget that water vapor is the main greenhouse gas no really you see we often talk about how greenhouse gases are harmful and connected to global warming but did you know that if there was no greenhouse gases the temperature of the planet would be minus 18 Celsius so basically greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are natural yes exactly what happens is that greenhouse gases act as a kind of blanket around planet Earth it's like a greenhouse that maintains Heat at a certain level and makes it so that the average temperature on Earth is around 15 degrees Celsius on average on average yeah the problem is that at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the mid-19th century humans started using hydrocarbons and through combustion artificially injected more greenhouse gases since then we've noticed that temperatures have risen it's gotten hotter it's like we've made the blanket enveloping planet Earth thicker so there's been an increase but what kind of amounts are we talking about we've had Direct CO2 measurements since around the mid-1950s there's an astronomical observatory in Hawaii that's taking constant measurements since that time and we've noted increases ever since then the question is trying to put the current concentrations of greenhouse gases in particular CO2 in perspective over a longer period of time it's interesting we're standing on an iceberg because through information contained in the ice we can prolong the time span in Antarctica there's a glacier several kilometers thick scientists drilled an ice core and by analyzing the bubbles contained in the ice we're able to track the concentration of greenhouse gases back to very ancient times what they noticed is that the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere has never been as high in 400 000 years in the early 20th century visitors arriving by boat from Alaska could easily reach the glacier from the banks of the stakeem a little over 100 years later our friends need to paddle over four kilometers in a canoe to reach the edges of the ice tongue the glacier like the vast majority of glaciers around the world has already lost close to two-thirds of its mass western Canada is one of the three regions in the world most affected by melting glaciers after Alaska and Patagonia great Glacier won't survive the turn of the next century foreign as they approach the Monumental yet fleeting ice pack our friends don't know whether to celebrate its beauty or mourn its passing wow [Music] that's not something you see every day huh yeah it's pretty special [Music] this is where the ice finishes its great journey plus we can hear the ice melt flowing under the glacier into the lake see that I'm really Amazed by the intensity of the blue in the crevices [Music] [Music] if the three men had one lesson to draw from their Adventure it would be the degree to which water connects us all pollution from a mine at the headwaters of the stakeem river can impact salmon stocks in Alaska 600 kilometers Downstream the same is true of the climate we can see it here at Great glacier greenhouse gas emissions from anywhere in the world cause glaciers to melt in the middle of Canada once again it's like the blood that flows in our veins if a limb an organ or even a milliliter of blood becomes infected the entire body gets sick the worldwide interconnection created by water is remarkable but also dangerous it gives humans an enormous responsibility every local action instantly becomes Global through water's tremendous capacity to move around and connect us [Music]

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Length: 50min 45sec (3045 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 10 2022