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Join American Experience for conversation on water equity with historians and scientists. Register for the May 12 event here. Find related, vetted, digital  resources on how water is managed around the world free on PBS LearningMedia. Conversations with American Experience Join American Experience for a virtual PAST FORWARD conversation exploring access, availability and conflicts around clean water in the United States. This conversation is inspired in part by their film, Flood in the Desert.   Panelists will discuss how our historical water policies led to inequity, who should get to decide how water is used, the intense conflicts over water already brewing, and how we can move forward with more sustainable strategies before we run out of our most precious natural resource.   The event will be streamed live on American Experience's YouTube and Facebook pages. Register Resources from American Experience: Flood in the Desert  will available on PBS LearningMedia soon. Until then, check out these other related resources: Available on PBS LearningMedia Impacts of Water Management | H2O: The Molecule That Made Us Travel to China's Three Gorges Dam and California's Salton Sea to learn how human control of rivers has had significant social and environmental effects, in this media gallery from H2O: The Molecule That Made Us. Use this resource to examine water management strategies and their foreseen and unforeseen impacts. See Resource Impacts and Solutions: Drought In this set of activities and resources, students learn about impacts of drought through news videos of communities facing serious water shortages, analyze drought data and models from NOAA, and research and evaluate potential solutions. This lesson works well as a component within a larger unit on climate change, its impacts, and ways to address the resulting issues. See Collection Southern Africa: Troubled Water | FRONTLINE The PlayPump was promising new technology that pumped fresh water when children played on a merry-goround. The tech and story appealed to the good intentions of politicians, celebrities and funders, who gave support to installing thousands of these devices in Africa. in this resource from FRONTLINE, students will see the problems that happened during the PlayPump rollout and learn important lessons related to the implementation of foreign aid projects.  See Resource Click here to unsubscribe