woven by water
A documentary about the thread that connects us all.
TRAILER
Water touches everything. It shapes ecosystems, economies, education, and the future of entire communities, most of the time without anyone noticing.
Woven by Water follows Greg Armstrong, founder of Run for Water and a teacher at Friendship Christian Academy, as he travels from a butterfly reserve in Mexico to a rural community in Tennessee to a school on the edge of the Maasai Steppe in Tanzania. Along the way, four unrelated stories reveal the same truth: water is the thread running through nearly every part of life.
The film isn't about statistics or crisis. It's an invitation to see the world differently, and to ask what thread you're weaving into it.
Meet Your Instructors
Monet Goode
Mexico — The Monarch Butterflies
What looks like a story about butterflies turns out to be a story about forests, and then about water. Deforestation in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve is drying up the springs an entire region depends on.
Emmett Marsh
Sneedville, Tennessee
Water insecurity isn't just a problem overseas. In rural Tennessee, families still haul water because it doesn't reach their homes any other way.
Eleanor Parks
Tanzania — 84 Days
A well changes more than access to water. It changes whether girls stay in school. Without water, many miss up to 84 days a year. With it, they graduate.
Eleanor Parks
Mount Kilimanjaro
The mountain is a water tower for the communities below it. It's also home to the porters who carry water uphill, day after day, so climbers can reach the summit.