NEW IMAX FILM GRAND CANYON ADVENTURE: RIVER AT RISK 3D

Check out the NEW IMAX FILM GRAND CANYON ADVENTURE: RIVER AT RISK 3D


WHERE:
National Museum of Natural History
Johnson IMAX Theater
10th and Constitution Avenue N.W.


Check back in to THE MUSIC MOMMA as I will be covering the premier screening this weekend and having an interview with Wade Davis.

Wade Davis is an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society. Named by the NGS as one of the Explorers for the Millennium, he has been described as “a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet and passionate defender of all of life’s diversity.”



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ROBERT F. KENNEDY, JR. TO INTRODUCE D.C. PREMIERE SCREENING OF NEW IMAX FILM GRAND CANYON ADVENTURE: RIVER AT RISK 3D
WHAT:
Celebrated river advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will introduce the D.C. premiere of the film Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk 3D, in which he appears, at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History


ABOUT THE FILM:

In the visually stunning film, Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk 3D (45 min.), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and author, anthropologist and explorer Wade Davis set out to witness the majestic beauty of the canyon and uncover the fragile state of one of the nation’s most iconic bodies of water. The film explores the challenges to preserving the supply of clean, fresh water and presents realistic solutions to improving access to clean water in an uplifting and stimulating format. Narrated by Academy Award winner Robert Redford and featuring original music by the Grammy Award winning Dave Matthews Band, Grand Canyon Adventure 3D is the fourth feature in MacGillivray Freeman Films’ Oscar-nominated aquatic-themed film series and is directed by two-time Oscar-nominated director Greg MacGillivray (The Living Sea, Coral Reef Adventure).

For more information on the film and water conversation,
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Grand Canyon Advernture Films

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ABOUT THE WORLDWIDE WATER CRISIS:
Did you know?

The Extent of the Crisis

• More than 1.5 billion people today lack steady access to drinking water – that’s approximately one in every five people on the planet. (Source: United Nations Environment Program)
• Each year, approximately 250 million people worldwide fall ill due to water-borne disease. It is estimated that every 15 seconds, a child dies of water-related illness. (Source: World Health Organization)

How Water is Being Used . . . And Lost

• The average person needs two quarts of water every day just to survive. (Source: American Red Cross)
• The typical American household uses 145 or more gallons of water daily. European household average half of that. The average African household uses about five gallons, about as much as an old-fashioned American toilet uses in a single flush. (Sources: American Water Works Association, Riverkeepers, Aqua-Africa.)
• Despite using less water, residents in developing nations pay on average 12 times more for water than people living in industrialized countries – and many cannot afford enough for basic sanitation and hydration. (Source: World Commission on Water for the 21st Century)
The State of U.S. Rivers

• Forty percent of American rivers are too polluted for fishing, swimming or aquatic life. Less than 2% of rivers in the U.S. are considered to be in pristine condition. (Sources: EPA and American Rivers)
• Seven million cases of mild infectious disease annually are credited to germs and parasites in U.S. drinking water. (Source: Natural Resources Defense Council)
• Thirty percent of the U.S.’s native freshwater species are threatened, endangered or in peril. (Source: American Rivers)