Curated Video
At least 25 dead after Trop Storm Olga rips through Caribbean
1. Person being rescued from floodwaters by helicopter
2. Pull out aerial shot of people on roof of house surrounded by high water
3. People being rescued from roof by helicopter, pull out
4. Various of people being rescued from roof of...
British Movietone
HUGE TRANSFORMER'S AWKWARD JOURNEY
With difficulty a giant transformer is moved through France from Aix-les-Bains to Genissiat. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are...
British Movietone
MOROCCAN SCENE
The official opening of the great barrage at Bin El Ouidane was a most important event for Morocco, in view of the power to be supplied for the hydro-electric scheme. Meanwhile, a party of women from Morocco were on an escorted visit to...
British Movietone
EASTERN AFFAIRS
Mr Ghulam Mohammed (Governor General of Pakistan) himself went to Kotri to open the lower Sind barrage - one of the most important irrigation schemes in the world. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and...
British Movietone
WATER FOR DURBAN
Natal's great seaport, Durban, has grown so fast that the question of water-supply has been a really big problem. The solution is a new dam, on which work began as long ago as 1939; it's on a horseshe bend of the River Umgeni about...
British Movietone
EGYPT - NEW ASWAN DAM
Preparatory work on the new ""High Dam Project"" as Aswan indicates the size of this important Egyptian undertaking. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata...
Curated Video
Summer Heat Expected To Strain Power Grid, Force Outages
Energy officials warn that high temperatures and a drought that's impacting much of the western U.S. could force widespread power outages this summer.
Curated Video
ROMANIA: BAIA MARE: CYANIDE SPILL - U-N INSPECTORS ARRIVE
English/Nat
Two dozen U.N. inspectors arrived on Saturday in the northwestern Romanian city of Baia Mare, near where a poisonous cyanide spill originated four weeks ago.
The team was to assess the environmental damage caused by the spill...
Curated Video
RR0312/B Iceland: Dam
Karahnukar, northeast Iceland (February 2003) - various of snowscape and mountains; wide river through gorge; river; bridge over river; snowscape; various men walking across snow; reindeer; various herd of reindeer running into distance;...
Bridgeman Arts
Soviet recruits and people working, scorched earth policy, explosion of dams and electricity plants, 1941
Joseph Stalin speaks to Soviet people, consequent total mobilisation of Soviet people, recruits and people working. Scorched earth policy, explosion of dams and electricity plants in particular the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station, scenes...
Bridgeman Arts
Crozant's fortress ruins, picnic, and Eguzon Dam. France 1930s
Clip 5 from the 1930s French documentary 'A la decouverte de la France: La Creuse ignoree' (Discover France: The unknown Creuse), about the Creuse region in France. The holiday group visit the Crozant's fortress ruins overlooking the...
Curated Video
Michigan Residents Forced To Evacuate As 2 River Dams Overflow
Two overflowing dams on the Tittabawassee River have led to the evacuation of 10,000 people and 3,500 homes
Sky News
In the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, farmers have been occupying the La Boquilla Dam for more than a month...
VOICED: In the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, farmers have been occupying the La Boquilla Dam for more than a month. SHOWS: Drone aerial views of the La Boquilla Dam, protesting farmers congregating and eating, Mexican National...
Curated Video
Delhi trials water ATMs to help ease drinking water crisis
Experimental water ATMs are bringing relief to India's capital as it faces water shortages and a pollution crisis.
The water dispensers offer a cheap and accessible source of clean water to parts of the city that don't even have water...
Curated Video
Bosnian activists protest against proposed hydropower dams
Hundreds of activists gathered at the Idbar Dam near the Bosnian town of of Konjic on Saturday to protest the building of hydropower dams on free-flowing rivers across the Balkan region.
Campaigners say that the...
Bridgeman Arts
Lenin anniversary book meeting and canal workers in the Fergana Valley. Uzbekistan, 1970
Clip 4 from the 1970 documentary 'Maitre de L'Eau' (Masters of Water) about water and irrigation in Uzbekistan's Fergana Valley and Karakum Canal. Men gather for a meeting for a book dedicated to Lenin's 100 year anniversary. Canal...
Curated Video
THAILAND: BANGKOK: ASEAN SUMMIT: SUMMIT ENDS
English/Nat
Leaders from the seven countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have ended their summit in Bangkok, pledging to work towards greater economic cooperation through the region.
The two-day meeting wound up...
AFP News Agency
VOICED : Cape Town dries up as residents wait for rain
Residents in the South African city of Cape Town are cutting back on water consumption as a two year drought takes its toll
Curated Video
Environmental concerns over world's largest dam
1. Wide shot of Yangtze River
2. Wide shot mountain at the Three Gorges area of the Yangtze River
3. Wide pan from the river to the dam
4. Medium high shot water pumping out of the dam
5. Wide pan over the Three Gorges Dam zone
6. Wide...
Bloomberg
Disaster-Hit Iron Market Seeks More Tons as Cos. Unable to Ramp Up Output
Feb.21 -- Iron ore has spiked after Vale suffered from a dam burst in January and announced cuts of up to 70 million tons. The jolt to the market has prompted speculation that there could be a shortfall this year even as the higher...
Curated Video
+4:3 Prolonged drought renews debate over Gorges Dam
Xingzi County, Jiangxi Province - June 2, 2011
1. Close-up tilt up man covering up his boat
2. Wide shot of man covering up his boat
3. Wide tilt up of dried-up Poyang Lake
4. Close-up of dead fish and flies
5. Close-up of covered...
Curated Video
Rain brings the desert back to life
AP Television
Wadi El Hameyta and Wadi el Mara, Egypt, 20-22 January 2010
1. Wide of desert landscape with a water pool
2. Wide of a sand dam holding a pool of water
3. Wide pan from behind a sand dam revealing a water pool
4. SOUNDBITE...
Curated Video
Uganda - Weed Threatens Lake Victoria
Hundreds of thousands of tons of weed are threatening environmental havoc in Africa's greatest lake. Six years ago researchers spotted the first water hyacinth in Lake
Victoria. Since then the large fibrous plant, which floats in mats...