Documenting the quiet revolution that's using strategies borrowed from the natural world to protect America's clean water.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency anticipates that, by 2014, thirty-six states will face local, regional or statewide water shortages. With the demand for water growing and infrastructure crumbling, America has an urgent need for better water management.

Water Blues, Green Solutions looks at a promising new approach: using green infrastructure solutions—systems inspired by the natural world.

Components

Public television broadcast
Nationwide broadcast of a full-length documentary coupled with community-based outreach and education. Capitalizing on partnerships and the network of local PBS stations, local outreach initiatives will be supported at the community level
On-line outreach
Media will be designed and purposed for delivery on-line and by mobile platforms through social media applications, with a robust website as core
Mobile media players
Project design intentionally allows the breakdown of media into discreet short-story elements for distribution via mobile players, iPad, cellphone, etc
Higher education learning modules
The short-story design allows media incorporation into both credit and non-credit courses on water, landscape architecture, civil engineering
K-12 teaching tools
A library of digital learning objects distributed for secondary education
Story catalog
A library of visual assets and stories broadly available for use by educators, advocates, and the interested public; available on the website