“ PIPELINE TO THE CLOUDS ” 1951 GENERAL ELECTRIC WATER CYCLE, CLEAN WATER & WATER SUPPLY XD31342

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This 1951 color sponsored film created by Raphael G. Wolff Studios of Hollywood for General Electric Company (GE) and the U.S. Public Health Service makes dramatic use of popular music and montage to stress the importance of clean water, the increasing demands on the water supply of U.S. citizens, and the necessity of supporting waterworks developments (TRT:24:36).
Opening titles: “A More Power to America Presentation, Technical Supervision by General Electric in cooperation with The United States Public Health Service, Pipeline to the Clouds” (0:06). Montage: A stream, snowy mountaintops, melting ice, a rushing waterfall, rocky coastline, a mill (0:34). Snatches of popular songs romanticise water. A young lovers share a kiss by “The Old Mill Stream.” A steam-powered riverboat on the “Swanee,” etc. Moonlight on a waterfront (1:22). The Mayan temple of Chichén Itzá, a stone carving (2:44). Buckets are filled with water. A showerhead. A faucet pours into an overflowing glass. A girl drinks (3:03). Aerial photography of cloudy skies. A cutaway illustration of a residential home highlights a water heater, a kitchen sink, a toilet, a bathtub, with pipes running out under city streets. A water treatment plant, an aqueduct, a reservoir (3:32). Montage of clouds, thunderstorms. Animation of raindrops running to streams, sinking into the ground, startling a cartoon worm (4:12:). Water is taken up by corn, a tree in continued animation. Grass evaporates water. A lake’s water level lowers (5:05). The sun is depicted heating water, which forms a cloud (6:01). A hydroelectric dam, a man watering his lawn, sprinklers with children at play, golfers, washing a car, a child taking a bath, a woman swimmer in a bathing cap, a public pool filled, empty (6:37). A sign: “Swimming Pool Closed, Water Shortage.” A radio announcer speaks of a drought. A restaurant: “Sorry… Water Served Only on Request!” and other signs imploring, “Save Water” (7:27). A man in an undershirt reads a headline: “Water Situation Critical.” A surly man washing his car is reprimanded by a Police Officer (8:15). Men punch timecards. A farmer examines dry soil. An abandoned boat (8:39). Animation of “water famine” (9:00). A well with running water. A shower is installed. A father waves to a child in a hospital maternity ward (9:39). Suburban tract housing. A washing machine, a garbage disposal, a dishwasher (10:19). Banners advertise air conditioning: “Cooled by Refrigeration” (10:42). Aerial photography of industrial factories. A gas pump. A plate of food. Dressing a baby (11:00). Paper making. Canning. Woolen cloth. A steelworks. A cement factory (11:32). Irrigation canals, sprinklers (12:10). A smouldering forest after a burn, silt (12:37). A polluted stream (13:05). An animated treatment plant supplies a city (13:14). Stream fishing. A waterfall. A flood. Headlines: “Three Towns Doomed.” A car drives through flood waters (13:39). Waterworks engineers, surveyors. A truck hauls gravel. Turning a valve in silhouette. A girl uses a drinking fountain (14:22). Replanting. Wilderness lakes. Pumping groundwater. A reservoir fills with water. Reclaimed water irrigates crops (15:13). A plane uses dry ice to seed clouds (15:54). Pollution. A gutter pours into a barrel. Rain. A chemist in a laboratory tests water (16:19). Purification montage (17:00). An animated diagram illustrates the process of chlorination, clarification, filtration (17:20). Laying pipeline for new homes. A water meter reader takes a reading. Chemists at work (18:46). Inside a waterworks. A power substation. An electric switchboard, motors, pumps (19:31). The U.S. Capitol with the seal of the Public Health Service overlaid. Titles call for “3000 New Treatment Plants, 9000 Wells and Well Pumps, 8000 Water Storage Tanks, 45000 Miles of Water Pipe” (20:04). A girl in a crib receives a midnight drink. Firefighters douse a blaze. Waterworks men review a map (20:50). A campaign sign: “We Can’t Wait 5 to 10 Years for Water, Vote No” (21:38). Native American cliff dwellings. A man on horseback traverses a barren plain to the tune “Cool Water” (22:45). Review of previous scenes. End titles (24:17).
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[@NotaVampyre111]

One of the best jobs I ever had was working for my city's wastewater plant. Good pay, benefits and hours with a lot of room for advancement.

[@aussiedorsmith9293]

Same as it ever was. Good information. Water is life and whether there’s enough to go around in any particular region can certainly vary for many reasons. I hope to see us all be mindful in our use of water along with keeping our household’s or business’ plumbing in proper order. Makes our communities stronger.

[@organicmachines3225]

We should filter ocean water and have literal huge pipelines covering this entire country. All over the world. Throughout Africa. Bring the forests and jungles back. Edit: Then they just talked about this

[@Req-]

I do the same 🙋🏼‍♀️ glad not alone in it ☺️

[@lawrencemiller3829]

That would take people in government who care about the USA and have some vision and a citizenry who promote it. Socialists wreck private industry so they can take-over with government run industry and lower standards of living.

[@tuleralph6031]

Would be easier to bring fresh water from Canada. Can build a pipeline for oil, why no water?

[@keithmoore5306]

ever check the price of desalinating sea water???

[@bookbeing]

@@keithmoore5306 20 years ago I talked to a very excited Israeli engineer who said his project team had created a low-cost/no cost sustainable technology for desalinization of sea water into drinking water.

[@dong6839]

Ever since I was a little kid, I've ALWAYS thought that desalination is going to be the KEY to solving this problem in the future. Not just for costal communities, but for EVERYONE. It just makes sense. Nature (or God depending on your inclinations) put an essentially unlimited source of the single most important ingredient to human life (water) all around us. It's just all mixed up with another important ingredient (salt), and we just need to figure out how to separate the two, without using a TON of energy in the process! And I'm convinced that the answer is right in front of us, and we're just not seeing it yet! There's got to be some simple way to turn salty sea water into safe clean drinking water, and I think nature itself holds the KEY! Mother nature has its own highly efficient ways of desalinating water, we just need to pay close attention and figure out what those ways are, and figure out how to synthesize them! I'm not an engineer, but what about something like fracking? Except use sea water? If we pump tons of sea water deep under ground and into the right type of natural substrate, maybe it'll act like a natural reverse osmosis plant, and the salt will get trapped and turned into mineral deposits, and up will come clean, fresh ground water! Maybe this is how our natural underground salt deposits were formed originally! Maybe when the continents were shifting, seawater drained down into the caverns that were formed, then got trapped there as the tectonic plates shifted over them, then as the plates moved they compressed these seawater stores, and the pressure got SO high that it forced the seawater through the porous rock, leaving the salt behind to collect and harden into mineral veins, and the water wept out the other side, collected, and started flowing to fill in the empty spaces, and these would become our underground springs and the "water table" as we know it! And perhaps all that crushing compression and heating etc is still going on beneath us, just waiting for us to take advantage of it, for FREE, and all we need to do is "feed" that system more salty seawater to replenish the stocks that poured down there originally all those billions of years ago? Kind of like how a river continually flows, and for thousands of years mankind just watched all that water moving past them, until one day, someone finally said, "hey, wait a minute.. why don't we use the force of that moving water to do work for us for free!?" And hydro power was born! I'm convinced that natural desalination will be something like that.

[@MitzvosGolem1]

Midwest farming areas water table dropped to lowest level ever . Many farms cannot get irrigation. Maybe we build pipe line from great lake s to farm belts instead of Afganistan Iraq wars and silly Mars missions. 🤔

[@brosefmcman8264]

Thanks Obama 😔

[@keithmoore5306]

find your own damn supply elsewhere nitwit!! it'll teach you to get dependent on technology!!! those wars were necessary and the Mars missions are advancing us hopefully we can go there and get away from morons like Karens like you!!!

[@MitzvosGolem1]

@@brosefmcman8264 thanks Bush 1 Bush 2 and Obama ..

[@kurthugger9107]

I am from Michigan. Everyone wants to drain the great lakes! Don't Touch!!!

[@MitzvosGolem1]

@@kurthugger9107 it's half Canadian so China owns it. Lol

[@davenone7312]

Does anyone remember the great disaster from freon being let into the air? It opened the ozone layer causing the heat to escape. We closed that hole and now we have global warming! We did cause warming but not how they are telling us!

[@TimMonbrod]

Relaxing‼️👍

[@snickle1980]

It IS pretty cozy.

[@0neIntangible]

Does Flint, Michagan ring a bell, anyone?

[@unassistedsuicide2243]

You mean where Republican state politicians co-opted local officials and thereby switched Flint’s water supply to the lead cocktail? Sure I remember.

[@0neIntangible]

@@unassistedsuicide2243 Yeah, we heard and read about it up here in Canada...what a shame, not to mention the fracking in Oklahoma and surroundung areas, where tap water could be set on fire...wtf?

[@0neIntangible]

We have similar issues in Canadian isolated northern indigenous native communities getting clean, unpolluted fresh water.

[@lawrencemiller3829]

Does California ring a bell with wildfires? Wildfires from politically motivated forest mismanagement, letting forests overgrow, leaving dead on the ground, preventing logging, thinning, and controlled burns. Government corruption is the reason for the wildfires and water shortages. Israel solved the problem ~70 years ago, 1) pay for the water used and its replacement leading to economic conservation, 2) continually develop new sources. It is expensive, and a better investment than high speed trains. Part of the problem are corrupt people in government and having the will to do so.

[@brosefmcman8264]

@@unassistedsuicide2243 Democrats control Michigan for decades! Bringing all their shithole country voters from the third world drain the system is why they can’t afford to upgrade their system!

[@skruffy7847]

What? You mean there have been water shortages in the past? It's not a new thing? Almost like its a reoccurring thing? We don't do half of the the things in this country that they used to that used so much water, and still a water shortage? Gee it's almost like the earth has climate cycles, not a constant "warming" caused by human activity. Don't be sheep People!!! Great film btw. Thanks for sharing!

[@unassistedsuicide2243]

Why would anyone have an issue with clean air as a result of the Petroleum Age coming to a long-overdue conclusion?

[@lawrencemiller3829]

@@unassistedsuicide2243 Because there will likely be a lower standard of living and more deaths from energy shortages.

[@brosefmcman8264]

@@unassistedsuicide2243 they tried stemming the over population for decades but Democrats need those votes so they leave our borders wide open for millions of migrants to pour in and deplete the resources to sty in power! Ya know …..to be nice 😔

[@skruffy7847]

@@unassistedsuicide2243 You might want to do a bit of research on how materials are gathered (plastics, lithium, copper, etc.) to produce electric vehicles. And how power plants works. Not as "green" as you think. But that's besides the original point. It had nothing to do with clean air or petroleum. It was about how there are signs of earths' climate and how it's swings from cold to hot through out time. Kind of like it has a cycle. not a straight line downhill.

[@unassistedsuicide2243]

@@skruffy7847 We’ve been dumping extraordinary amounts of hydrocarbons into our atmosphere for a full century now; we burn through a minimum of 10,000 gallons of distilled fuels EVERY SECOND in the U.S. alone. Established, verifiable, irrefutable facts. How’s THAT satisfy your typical simple-minded right-wing social media “ do the research “ adminishment, sportaroo?

[@barrysylvester1940]

We'll all be Thirsty soon ...

[@brosefmcman8264]

Too many humans

[@rupe53]

perhaps the answer is not to blame politics, but to go back to showing films / videos like this in our school systems where the next generation can learn to conserve instead of pissing away resources. It worked 70 years ago, right? In many rural areas served by wells (a limited resource) people make do with a few hundred gallons per day for an entire family, not 200 gallons per person as suggested here.

[@bookbeing]

We should invest in building and improving infrastructure instead of wars.

[@brosefmcman8264]

Until China nukes us and takes all the resources ! There is that goin on 🤷‍♀️

[@matthewattwood2165]

let's see how long it is before we are learning Chinese or Russian if we did that 😉

[@jimhaines8370]

@@bookbeing may not to look out the window too hard about that statement you made

[@allandavis8201]

Useless bit of pub quiz knowledge, there is the same amount of water on earth today as there has always been, apart from the very small amount that has been sent outside the the atmosphere by us humans, how scientists know this I don’t know, I suppose it is the same as how they know that no two snowflakes have or will ever be identical, told you it was trivia..😀👍🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿