Mountains to Mountains

Entering the theatre I did not expect the inspirational short film my eyes were about to witness. It started off with the cast introducing the story of what happened in Nepal. Before even seeing the short film, they had in store for us I was already was intrigued in the topic. They were covering an issue in the country of Nepal where the people of local communities have a hard time accessing local water. This causes a delay in the production of the economic wealth, education, and overall standard of living. They also covered how the Gorkha earthquake, and its impact of the local communities. On top of nine thousand deaths causes by this environmental tragedy, it made rebuilding infrastructure nearly impossible.

Wine to Water's main mission is to overall raise awareness and economic help to provide clean water for countries in a water crisis like Nepal, the Dominican Republic, and Colombia. While other organizations focus on a broader region to help these countries in crisis, wine to water focuses on the basic foundation of life, water. In the short film it showed communities in Nepal where mothers and their kids, younger then the age of six or seven had to walk thirty to forty minutes just for water. Wine to water implemented waterway systems running off of local Environmental sources (lake or river), that made accessing clean drinking water more practical. This short film displayed how the community would come together and work on this project because of their dire need for water. I found it very inspiration and eye opening to see all the mothers working in the heat day in and day out because that’s how much accessing clean water meant to them. They also explained how they set up a payment system for the water taps that allowed for Nepalese people to manage their own water and provide upkeep for the new integrated water taps.

The second part of this film showed the growth the communities had a year after the newly imbedded water taps had been put into place. This short film explained how the taps went beyond just providing a clean drinking source, but they also provided a seed to help rebuild the economy of those regions recovering from the detrimental effects of the earthquake. The taps achieved this goal by providing more time for the people of these communities allowing them to rebuild broken down infrastructure, create a system of government, and improve the quality of living for the people.