In collaboration with POV by PBS, a screening of the documentary The Age of Water (2024) will be held Thursday, April 9, at 6 p.m., at Rockland Public Library. 

When three children die of leukemia in a rural Mexican community, two mothers partner with a hydrogeologist to investigate their water supply. The discovery of dangerous radioactivity leads to community backlash and government denial. As they uncover how industrial farming is tapping ancient, contaminated aquifers, their fight for justice shows the personal cost of exposing environmental threats.

Directed by Isabel Alcántara Atalaya and Alfredo Alcántara. Produced by Michèle Stephenson, Joe Brewster, and Lindsay Perna.

This event is a collaboration with the award-winning documentary series POV (www.pbs.org/pov).

For more information, please email elewis@rocklandmaine.gov.