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Alan Gray, editor of NewsBlaze sent this item about a screening of the film, "Running Dry," at the 25th Biennial Groundwater Conference in Sacramento, California.

This is the 50th year for the Biennial Groundwater Conference, which provides a forum for policy-makers, practitioners, researchers, and educators concerning the use and management of groundwater in California. "Running Dry" bills itself as a "documentary film on the global water crisis." It was inspired by the late Senator Paul Simon’s book, Tapped Out, which foresaw a coming world crisis in water.

The documentary is narrated by actress Jane Seymour and written, produced and directed by Jim Thebaut. The eighty minute film was funded by American Water with additional support from Carnegie Corporation of New York, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Southern California Water Company and others.

You can visit the film’s website where you can see a move trailer, though I found the photo gallery far more informative and compelling.

Alan Gray’s NewsBlaze is a story in itself. Located in Folsom, CA, Gray wrote in an email that he created it, "with the aim of providing news that the mainstream media doesn't give any airtime to. I try to show the news as-is without spin, or at least with not too much spin." He wrote that environmental issues are among those that don't get much play. With over 400 topics on RSS, Gray says, "I'm looking to fill some gaps" through stories that educate people and that otherwise might not see the light of day.

Don Dunnington

Boing Boing says these "urban explorers' photos of Europe's gorgeous, ancient sewers are thrilling and eerie."

Some sewers are ancient, some modern, "all are the secret world under the streets that we can hear gurgling when there's no one else around."

Europe Underground offers 148 pictures on 13 pages. Many of the photos are of Manchester and Bristol, England, but you’ll also find Vienna, Paris, Prague, Glasgow, London and others.

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Don Dunnington