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Cambodia Photo Gallery
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By Stephanie Stroud | June 25, 2010(Photos- Ali Sanderson/Expedition Blue Planet)
Examining leading scientists assertions that mismanagement of water resources doomed the ancient city of Angkor and to extrapolate how, in the near future, a similar fate might meet modern mega-cities. To trace our story back up the Ganges to the Himalayas, where the melting of glaciers (in addition to damming and overuse) is also impacting another major river in Asia: the Mekong.
Mississippi River Photo Gallery
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By Stephanie Stroud | June 25, 2010(Photos- Ali Sanderson/Expedition Blue Planet)
Exploring the destructive effects of toxic agricultural chemicals and nutrient pollution on water. On a larger scale, to highlight the difficult choice faced by people struggling with an impossible choice in the US and around the world between making ends meet in the short-term and doing what's best for the environment and their own long term well being.
Middle East Photo Gallery
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By Stephanie Stroud | June 25, 2010Investigating the role that fresh water access has played in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict in the West Bank. To illuminate ways in which water scarcity can lead to violence and warfare, but it can also lead to peace through diplomacy and cooperation.
Botswana Photo Gallery
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By Stephanie Stroud | June 25, 2010Illuminating the impact of competing interests; including wildlife, diamond mines, tourism, cattle industry, and nearby villages on the miraculous freshwater refuge the Okavango wetland provides. From a global perspective, to gain insight into how various parties, both human and animal, individual and industrial, can balance their needs for water in a world where this resource is rapidly shrinking.
India Photo Gallery
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By Stephanie Stroud | June 25, 2010Investigating the impact of climate change, pollution, population growth, a proposed superhighway, and other critical factors on India's holiest river, the Ganges. In a larger sense, to explore the confluence of water and religion, the sacred and the profane.
Cambodia
Overview
A World Heritage Site, Angkor is one of the most important archaeological sites in South-East Asia. Stretching over some 400 square kilometers, the park contains the magnificent remains of the Khmer Empire, dating from the 9th to the 15thcentury AD.
Mississippi River
Overview
The longest river in the USA and third largest in the world, the Mississippi drains 40 percent of the country, including the majority of its farming heartland. At present, there are no federal laws governing pollution being dumped into the Mississippi River, and last year alone some 817,000 tons of nitrogen made its way into the Gulf of Mexico via the river. These agricultural chemicals have led to the largest ever 'deadzone' (an area so starved of oxygen that it cannot sustain life) in the history of the Gulf.
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