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Magdalena Australia Festival: Brisbane, Australia,
April 10-16 2003

1. Deluge 2 Drain 3. Irrigate 4. Dam 5. Drought 6. Solution

Dam

4. Dam

The Sultan's servants
captured Gul-baba
and threw him into
the Sultan's dungeon.

When the Sultan heard about
the secret garden,
he went to see it with his own eyes.
He was astonished
to see so many beautiful plants.
He sat down beneath the sunflowers
happier than he had ever been before.

80% of the earth's surface is covered in water.

Two-thirds of the world's fresh water is locked in ice-caps.

75% of a living tree is water.

Water-wealthy countries: Greenland, Canada and Iceland (Australia is 40th).

Dam

50 million Indians have been forced out of their homes by dam-building over 40 years.

Plastic bottles are non-sustainable, non-reuseable pollutants.

11 litres of water are needed to make one can of Coke.

400,000 litres of fresh water are needed to make one car.

50,000,000 new cars are made each year.

10 million people have been displaced by the Three Gorges Dam on the River Ganges.

Dams are a popular means of shifting water control from communities to central government,
and colonising rivers and people.

Water cannot be bound, it has no boundaries.

Dam

 

1. Deluge 2 Drain 3. Irrigate 4. Dam 5. Drought 6. Solution

 

 

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