ATV Today: 05.04.1973: Spring water in Chadlington

Summary

Chris Tarrant reports from Chadlington where the Oxfordshire Water Board has switched the village's water supply from a natural spring to water from a reservoir. Villagers are up in arms about the change.

Year:

1973

Duration:

0:06:00

Film type:

Colour / Sound

Company:

ATV

Master format:

16mm

Description

Chris Tarrant provides an introductory voice over as we see villagers filling up various containers (buckets and jugs) with water from the natural spring at Chadlington. He then interviews one of the leaders of the campaign who argues that using the village's natural spring water is much more economic, efficient and healthy than using water from a reservoir twenty miles away. This is followed by a vox pop with villagers, most of whom haven't drunk water out of their taps since the supply was changed.


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