SoLa: Louisiana Water Stories
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Browse Full-length Non-member TitlesEverywhere one looks in Southern Louisiana there's water: rivers, bayous, swamps, the Mississippi River, and the Gulf of Mexico. And everyone in Cajun Country has a water story, or two or three or more. Its waterways support the biggest economies in Louisiana - a $70 billion a year oil and gas industry, a $2.4 billion a year fishing business, tourism and recreational sports. But these waterways are also home to some insidious polluters along a 100-mile-long stretch of the Mississippi known "Cancer Alley," the world's largest Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico and erosion that is costing the coastline twenty five square miles of wetlands a year.
Media Details
Runtime: 1 hours 1 minutes 46 seconds
- Topic: Geography, Science
- Subtopic: Conservation, Ecology, Environmental Issues, Marine Life, U.S. Geography
- Grade/Interest Level: 7 - 12
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- Release Year: 2011
- Producer/Distributor: Bullfrog Films, Inc
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