Your team has been hired by NatGeo's Creative Studio to produce a documentary entitled “From Source to Mouth”

 

Purpose: Encourage young students (8-14 years old) to appreciate rivers for their economic, environmental and cultural significance.

 

Although the documentary can take any form (video, presentation, website, skit, etc.), NatGeo has the following requirements:

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• An image of your river, its specific location and the direction of its flow.

• Cultural significance of the river (civilizations founded on it’s banks, religious significance, etc.)

• Environmental significance (what are the current environmental concerns for the river?)

• Economic significance of the river (talk about how your river is used as a source of water for irrigation or drinking, Tourism, Farming, Forestry, Industry and/or Transportation)

• If humans have altered the course of the river (for example by building hydroelectric dams), how has that affected the river and its surrounding ecosystems.

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All information provided must be specific for your river (this means that generalized statements such as “Rivers are good sources of freshwater, and provide about 60% of the water used for irrigation” are not acceptable).

Your documentary must encourage river stewardship (this means, give specific ideas of how your audience can get involved in the conservation of your river and rivers in general).

 

Rivers will be assigned to teams by lottery with the goal of not repeating any. If you are interested in one not listed here, let me know (we can probably add it to the list).