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On August 2, ‘One Water,’ a documentary narrated by Martin Sheen about the world’s ‘freshwater crisis, will make its cable television debut. The film, which was completed in 2008 by University of Miami professors Sanjeev Chatterjee and Ali Habashi, aims to raise awareness about the precarious state of potable water and how people around the world interact with it. Chatterjee is also the executive director of the University’s’Knight Center for International Media.

So far, the Knight Foundation-funded film has won numerous awards from various film festivals and has been screened at the United Nations’ Commission on Sustainable Development. The documentary, showing on the Discovery Channel Networks Planet Green’at 12 a.m. and 9 p.m. on Aug. 2 and again Aug. 3 and 7, also has helped spark further media reports about the globe’s water crisis. To learn more, visit onewaterthemovie.org.