The first part of movie presents "The Crisis," and depicts the essentials of the water cycle and how human activity affects and is affected by that cycle. The earth has a limited amount of water. However the water comes around in a cycle itself that if left alone, it will never run out. The little girl in the film explains this process of the water cycle, it starts off with evaporation, when the heat of the sun turns the water from rivers, lakes, or oceans and turns it into vapor and goes into the air. Condensation then starts, when water vapors become very cold and changes back into liquid forming clouds. Precipitation occurs when enough liquid has been collected in the clouds and the air cannot hold it anymore, then it starts to rain. However, due to human uses when it rains, it hits concrete, side walker or street, the water is unable to be absorbed into the ground. Instead the water then travels down storm drains into the oceans where it brings no use to society. It means the ground will get very dry, the grasses and trees die (Blue Gold). Maude Barlow, who is National Chair of the Council of Canadians states that “The world will become desertification so quickly and we are becoming deserts in many places” (Maude Barlow). Dr Michal Kravick explains that “as we dry out the land, it is changing from green to yellow, resulting in all the fresh water cumulating in the ocean. As the land surface weight is lightened while the rise of water in the oceans increase the weight on the ocean floor, this can cause the changes of structure of the earth’s crust which causes earthquakes and potentially tsunami waves like the ones we experience in 2004” (Kravick).