United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
#430/09-91-016(8)
September 1991
Office of Water (WH-547)
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Educational Videos
for Children About
Our Precious Water
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Greetings! I'm Dino Sorrus and I will
be your host for the Video Program!
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Challenge your students
or group to discover
the efficient use of
water with four
new educational
videos!
our videos are available for loan to you through
EPA's Video Lending Library.
Three videos use contemporary graphics and anima-
tion as well as live action characters to stimulate the
imagination and interest of 5th through 9th grade
children. Dino helps children understand that-the
water we have on earth is all we will ever have and
shows us ways to save our precious water resources
everyday.
The fourth video is specifically designed to introduce
junior high school students to the varied careers
available to them in the water quality field. Students
are introduced to careers that are both rewarding and
help preserve our limited water resources.
Simply complete and mail the attached card to receive
any o.f the four educational videos described below.
The Surface
Water Video
(9:OO min.)
Explore the world of
streams, lakes, oceans,
and rivers with Dino
Sorrus and learn how
every drop of water we
have on earth is contin-
uously recycled through
the atmosphere by
evaporation, condensa-
tion, and precipitation.
Dino and his young
reporters, Jason and
Jennifer, show you how
our surface water is
being polluted everyday
by people and nature.
Jason and Jennifer learn
how each person can
help conserve our
precious supply of sur-
face water, clean up the
water pollution that
exists today, and pre-
vent future pollution
around our homes and
communities.
The Ground Water
Video Adventure
(9:20 min.)
Dino Sorrus guides
you through a video
game adventure to help
you explore the world
of fresh water below the
earth's surface, the
source of most of our
fresh water supply. For
Jennifer to win the
video game, she must
protect ground water
from potential threats
from industry, agricul-
ture, and people.
Jennifer firtds that the
video game is much
more difficult than she
thought, and protecting
our ground water
supply is not a game at
all. Pollution in the
ground water supply
harms the water we
depend on everyday of
our lives. Dino shows
Jennifer ways people
working in industry and
agriculture can clean
polluted areas before the
pollutants reach the
ground water supply
and easy steps she can
take in her home to stop
ground water pollution.
Saving Water -
The Conservation
Video
(8:OO min.)
Dino Sorrus takes
Roberto on an adven-
ture to a museum of
the future. Roberto is
surprised to find an
exhibit called "The Lost
Treasures of Earth,"
where the last remain-
ing drops of clean water
on earth are displayed.
Dino Sorrus explains to
Roberto that all of the
water currently on the
earth is all we will ever
have. If people use and
pollute too much water,
we will not be able to
clean and recycle it fast
enough to save it for the
future. Roberto is happy
to return to the present
where water is plentiful,
and he is eager to learn
ways to conserve our
precious water supply
before it is too late. Dino
Sorrus shows him many
easy ways he can save
water everyday.
Careers in Water
Quality
(76:20 min.)
Explore careers in
water quality with a
teacher and his students
as they work on a class
project. To help stu-
dents choose a career,
the teacher shows a
documentary of inter-
views with scientists,
computer specialists,
engineers, attorneys,
and government
officials who have
chosen careers that help
the environment and
protect water quality.
The students realize
that pursuing a career
in the water quality
field can make a worth-
while contribution to
the environment and
can be personally
rewarding as well.
I would like my students or group to learn more about water
quality and conservation! Please loan me the following videos
at no cost:
OThe Surface Water Video
(Item Number: WWVTPE22)
C J The Ground Water Video Adventure
^-s (Item Number: WWVTPE23)
O Saving Water — The Conservation Video
(Item Number: WWVTPE24)
Careers in Water Quality Video
(Item Number: WWVTPE2S)
(The video lending period is for 2 weeks; please return the videos promptly.)
PLEASE PRINT CLEARLY:
Name
Daytime Phone /including area oxlel
School or Organization
City
Zip Code
(The videos were produced by the Water Pollution Control Federation (WPCF) in cooperation with the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency. If you would like to purchase the videos, contact WPCF at (703)684-2400.)
To order your videos from EPA's Video Lending
Library, call, toll free, 1-800-624-8301
Schedule a Special Showing for
Your Students or Group Today!
Videos Returned at Borrower's Expense
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