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DENMARK · 1946

Water from the Land

Carl Theodor Dreyer
water pollution rural health sanitation agricultural practices public health education
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Synopsis

Sharply critical film about rural water pollution in the Jutland countryside district of medical officer Jens Jensen. Situations of everyday water use are illustrated by graphic representations of a well and surrounding soil layers. A new well is correctly constructed in the farmyard.

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