Teachers might allocate individual students to take responsibility for reporting the comments of individual interviewees to the whole class, as suggested at appropriate times as indicated in the following pages. The film relies heavily on a large number of brief interview bites. If students have a detailed knowledge of the plan, they can ignore these Appendixes.Īppendix 1 Why do algal blooms kill fish?Īppendix 2 The Murray-Darling Basin Plan explainedĪppendix 3 The economy, Irrigation and cotton The relevance of each of these is indicated at the appropriate time. In 1922, conservationist Aldo Leopold paddled a canoe through the great delta at the mouth of the Colorado River. In January 2019 viral videos showed grown men near Menindee weeping as they held decades-old Murray Cod that had perished in the green oxygen-starved. Almost all wastewater is reused or returned to the Colorado River. There are various Appendixes that explain key ideas at appropriate points of the film, if needed. When the River Runs Dry (Rory McLeod, 2019) is a 54-minute documentary film about the mass fish kills at Menindee, in western New South Wales, on the Darling River, that shocked Australia in 2019. The film assumes a lot of pre-existing knowledge about the Murray-Darling Basin Plan and the working of the irrigated cotton industry.
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