NEW YORK — The eco-series “Big Ideas for a Small Planet” on cable TV’s Sundance Channel is this month airing an episode exclusively about water, according to a Sundance Channel press release.

The 30-minute program, “Big Ideas for a Small Planet: Water,” introduces three people who are working on creative solutions to a looming global shortage of drinking water. Scheduled to first air April 15 at 9 p.m. Eastern/Pacific, the program is part of Sundance Channel’s THE GREEN, regularly scheduled environmental programming on that channel presented by Robert Redford and co-presented by Lexus and Citi Smith Barney.

The program will introduce viewers to:

● Chad Pregracke, who is founder and president of Living Lands & Waters, an East Moline, IL-based not-for-profit organization that cleans up river ways from a solar-powered barge. His volunteer group travels the country collecting and recycling river trash while monitoring pollution levels.

● Friday Harbor, WA, resident Tim Pope, who is president of Northwest Water Source, a water-harvesting company. Pope, a former truck driver, will demonstrate a few of the nearly 200 rainwater harvesting systems he has installed in the San Juan Islands.

● Amanda Brock (pictured here), who is president and COO of Houston-based Water Standard Co. Her company is pioneering what it calls “seawater conversion vessel” technology, an ocean-going vessel with onboard desalination technology that can produce up to 79 million gallons (300,000 cubic meters) of drinking water daily, as WaterTech Online™ has reported.

“Big Ideas for a Small Planet,” now in its second series, won an Environmental Media Association award last season.

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