Watery radio doc wins science writers' journalism award

Freelancer editor and writer Kim Pittaway (former editor of Chatelaine), hasn't done a radio documentary for some years, since university in fact. But last year she teamed up with her sister Tina (the first time they had ever collaborated), a very experienced and award-winning documentarist, to do a radio program on water and our use and abuse of it. The program documents the sisters' exploration (and their growing alarm about) their "water footprint" and the impact they have on the earth.

The teamwork must have been a charm since "Tina and Kim's Watery Road to Hell" has won a Science in Society Journalism Award from the Canadian Science Writers Association (CSWA)in the category of 10 - 30 minute radio documentaries.

The award will be presented on Saturday 23rd at a banquet in Sudbury; with it goes a plaque and $1,000 prize.

The program was heard December 16, 2008 on CBC's The Current, as part of an extended series about water. (You can hear the documentary there.)