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Water and Water Treatment (2)

  • Let's Look at Water
    Let's Look at Water
    Harold Randall 1947 20 min
    This short documentary shows how a city's water supply is purified at a filtration plant. The complex system of the underground mains that supply all parts of the city with water is also illustrated, as is the safeguarding of water supplies on trains, ships and aircrafts.
  • The Pirate
    The Pirate
    Michel Murray 1991 19 min
    In this short fiction film, Estelle, the scientist in charge of a research project on water, is getting ready for a conference with the help of her "intelligent" satellite Zenon. But a teenage hacker has found an illegal way to consult Zenon's files. Things look very bad when the hacker accidentally infects Zenon with a virulent computer virus.

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