People in the pacific islands are one of the first and worst affected by climate change.

More info: www.oxfam.org.nz
Produced by: Oxfam New Zealand
Year:
Language: English

This feature-length video documents one woman's twice-daily trek for clean water. The film opens as Birhane completes her morning chores and then, unedited, follows her on the nearly two mile journey to an open hand dug well in Ethiopia.

More info: water.org 
Produced by: Mike McCamon & Ashleig Reimer
Year:
Language: English

This is the fifth chapter in the series based on the DVD entitled "Enhancing Delivery through Dialogue" which captures the process, and outcomes of The Water Dialogues South Africa. It is based on our visit in April 2009 to Bushbuckridge Local Municipality where service delivery takes place through public provision at the local municipality level. It includes interviews with the Local Municipality staff, the Bushbuckridge Water Board and Anne Mayher. December Ndlovu facilitated interviews in ...

This video shows the impact of pollution on Egirdir Lake, the second largest fresh water lake of Turkey. WWF-Turkey set up a project encompassing various activities related to pollution prevention, sustainable fishing, ecotourism, raising awareness and capacity building among locals

More info: WWF-Turkey
Produced by: WWF-Turkey in cooperation with Siemens
Year: 2008
Language: Turkish with English subt...

This is the seventh chapter in the series based on the DVD entitled "Enhancing Delivery through Dialogue" which captures the process, and outcomes of The Water Dialogues South Africa. It is based on a visit to the Chris Hani District Municipality in the Eastern Cape in February 2009 where the case study focused on the four areas where the Chris Hani District Municipality uses Community Service Providers for all operations and maintenance. It includes interviews with the District Municipality ...

This is the eighth chapter in the series based on the DVD entitled "Enhancing Delivery through Dialogue" which captures the process, and outcomes of The Water Dialogues South Africa. It is based on interviews with Carina van Rooyen and Jean-Pierre Mas during March 2009, and video footage of The WD-SA Working Group footage and previous footage during the South African Water Caucus Meeting on the Phiri Court Case. Photographs were provided by Per Herbertsson, an independent photographer, as wel...

Climate change isn't something that's going to hit in the future. It's already changing the weather patterns and water supply in California; a dwindling snowpack, bigger flood flows, rising sea levels, longer and harsher droughts.
In a newly released mini documentary, "A Climate of Change", find out what adaptation strategies the Californian Department of Water Resources proposes. (Produced in conjunction with the Water Education Foundation)

More info: A line in the sand

In Alashan, a remote region of grassland or steppe in the Mongolian Autonomous Region of China, the desert is growing by 1000 square kilometres per year. Fifty years ago there were 50 springs in the area, three rivers and 800 small lakes. Today sand dunes roll across the plain and the springs, rivers and most of the lakes are gone. This Earth Report travels to Alashan to find out what has gone so drastically wrong over so short a time, and to see what the Chinese authorities and development a...

New investors and the breakdown of local water control and culture. The Valley of the Guadalhorce is a nice place to live and attracts many, particularly foreign newcomers. As demand for water increases, water distribution is becoming a big problem for farmers, since agriculture is only viable if the crops are irrigated. The need to manage the water collectively is urgent.

More info: Wageningen University - Tail-Enders Project...

This video shows the introduction of the V-plough, trenchless drainage construction, in Egypt. The project is a parntership of DRI, EPADP, ILRI and Euroconsult.

More info: Drainage Research Institute
Produced by: I. Ateek
Year: 1997
Language: English

 

This videos shows irrigation in urban areas. It shows the problems of using wastewater for irrigationas well as various risk reducing methods.

More info: www.iwmi.cgiar.org
Produced by: International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and its partners as a knowledge sharing aid, supported by Google
Year: 2008
Language: English

Acumen Fund investee Advanced Bio-Extracts Limited (ABE) is working hard to fight malaria by producing low-cost artemisinin in East Africa. Artemisinin is a key ingredient in the new malaria treatments recommended by the World Health Organization.

More information: http://acumenfund.org/ 
Produced by: Acumen Fund
Year:
Language: English

Due to climate change, water runoff from the Himalaya is now subject to change as well and therefore can cause floods. This video explains how the wetlands of the Jhelum Basin in India can protect this area from this threat.

More info: Wetlands International
Produced by: Wetlands International
Year:
Language: English

The film advocates the need for a holistic approach to urban sanitation, instead of focusing on fragmented approaches to the sanitation problem in urban areas. An approach which looks at creating open defecation free cities is advocated.

More info: www.wsp.org, WSP YouTube Channnel
Produced by: WSP (Water and Sanitation program)
Year:
Language: Engl...

The BBC World TV debate was filmed at the headquarters of IUCN ? the World Conservation Union. It was moderated by BBC newscaster Zeinab Badawi and involved six internationally renowned panelists. The debate covered the impact of population and livestock increase on fragile dryland ecosystems, and to what extent desertification contributes to ethnic conflict and human migration.

More info: IUCN
Produced by: dev.tv and...

The flood and the damage in Nowshera (KP), Pakistan. With houses three meters under water for several days Nowshera is one of the most badly hit areas in Pakistan. This movie describes the damage and the challenge for reconstruction.

More info: www.thewaterchannel.tv 
Produced by: TheWaterChannel
Year: 2010
Language: English

The broadcast report "Water is life" shows innovative water and sanitation projects in Kenya, funded with the aid of a 500 million euro Water Facility spanning more than 40 countries across the ACP region. Of key importance to the EU-ACP funding package is the high level of community involvement. Implementing a project is just the first stage in a long process of which the most important objective is sustaining a population long after the implementation has been completed.

More info:

In the mountains of northern Costa Rica, communities who had long thought of water as an inexhaustible resource have begun to see a reduction in quality and quantity of this vital liquid. The cloud forests have been continually destroyed to make room for farm land and urban growth. However, through the reforestation of lands surround their water sources, ecological loans to reclaim their watershed and the involvement of all members of the community, the people of Río La Balsa are fighting to ...

In the mountains of northern Costa Rica, communities who had long thought of water as an inexhaustible resource have begun to see a reduction in quality and quantity of this vital liquid. The cloud forests have been continually destroyed to make room for farm land and urban growth. However, through the reforestation of lands surround their water sources, ecological loans to reclaim their watershed and the involvement of all members of the community, the people of Río La Balsa are fighting to ...

A small clip of water quality and injustice issues in Maywood CA.

More info: www.urbansemillas.com
Produced by: Urban Semillas
Year: 2010
Language: Spanish and English

Animación acerca del cuidado del agua.

EMPOWERS is a regional partnership of fifteen organizations allied together to improve long-term access to water by local communities. EMPOWERS advocates stakeholder-led activities to empower local people in integrated water resources management and development.
EMPOWERS 4-year (2003-2007) project is mainly funded through the European Union's Regional MEDA Water Programme for Local Water Management. EMPOWERS is being implemented in Egypt, Jordan, and Palestine. This video addresses lo...

The site of Amman Imman's borehole in the village of Tangarwashane has become an oasis of life. Once dry and barren, with nothing more than the tents of nomads who had lost their animals due to the ever lengthening drought, Tangarwashane now has a school, a food program, a reforestation project and adult education classes. Health, education and income is beginning to flourish. None of these opportunities would have been possible without the provision of water, now adequately supplied by the ...

See the Stockholm Junior Water Prize 2009 Award Ceremony.

18-year-old Ceren Burçak Dag of Nisantasi, Turkey has won the 2009 Stockholm Junior Water Prize. The young woman won the coveted honour by developing an innovative method for generating energy through piezoelectric pulses from falling rain drops.

More info: AquaBioTronic.com: Bilge water treatment

Specific plant for bilge water treatment to install in harbor for oil recovery and recicling...

More info: Human Resources Development Society Pakistan
Produced by: Human Resources Development Society Pakistan
Year:
Language: Urdu

Consequences of arsenic in drinking water in Pakistan. Articles and pictures are presented.

More info: Urban Development and Environmental Research Center (UDERC)
Produced by:
Year:
Language: n/a

The Lake Manzala Engineered Wetland Project investigated the suitability of using artificial wetlands as a low-cost alternative for treating sewage from cities, towns, and villages located on the fringes of the Nile Valley and Delta, where ample land is available.

More info: www.undp.org
Produced by: Fwd, forward film productions
Year: 2008
Language: English

The struggle within each drop profiles Sri Lanka, the Philippines and the people's Republic of China, and looks toward solution to Asia's growing water crisis.

More info: Asian Development Bank 
Produced by: The Information Office & ADB
Year: 1997
Language: English

More info: www.reseaucrepa.org
Produced by: CREPA (Centre Régional pour l'eau potable et l'assainissement à faible coût), sponsored by European Union, GTZ, l'ONEA
Year:
Language: French

Assignment Earth travels to Thailand where we see the growing environmental troubles being faced as a result downstream, including lower water levels, less nutrient-rich sediment and degraded fisheries.

More info: Assignment Earth
Produced by: Assignment Earth
Year:
Language: English

One of the greatest challenges of the 21st Century.
Some thirst for water. Others waste it. The world's population continues to increase. Agriculture, industry and energy demand more and more water. The impacts of climate change are looming. Pressure on freshwater supplies has never been greater. The result is a threat to the world's economy, the environment and one of our world's most precious resources.

More info: WWF

Le canal Boumaïz dans le périmètre de Gharb a permis de relier quelques centaines de paysans aux aménagements hydrauliques de l'Etat; une mise en valeur agricole importante s'en est suive. Des propositions pour consolider cet essor sont formulées par les concernés.

More info: www.eau-sirma.net 
Produced by: Ena Cnerv
Year: 2009
Language: French
 

This video gives a small introduction on water related issues in the southern part of Bangladesh e.g. flood risks, lack of maintenance and operation, and non-functional infrastructures. It describes how IPSWAM addresses these issues. IPSWAM (Integrated Planning for Sustainable Water Management) is a project of the Ministry of Water Resources Bangladesh Water Development Board and supported by Bangladesh & Royal Netherlands Government. Community members, farmers and women share their experienc...

This documentary shows an adaptation technique used to deal with flood and water logging in the South Central part of Bangladesh.

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Produced by: BCAS and IIED
Year: 2007
Language: English

What is today, is not what it was yesterday nor what it will be tomorrow.? The city of Moynoq on the coast of Uzbekistan on the Aral sea, now feels like a ghost town. Its former inhabitants the victims of an unstoppable environmental disaster that has has been ravaging the island and killing its residents for decades. This documentary explores the despair and resignation of the ex fishing families of Moynoq as they try to redefine their lives.

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In this video, Bianca Jagger, former fashion icon and actress, founder and chair of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation, chair of the World Future Council and Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador discusses moving from a fossil fuel economy to a renewable energy economy and the necessity of a copernican style revolution Planet Positive.

2020 Vision is a campaign to inspire people into action on climate change. 

More info: Blue Gold : World Water Wars

Wars of the future will be fought over water, not oil. There have indeed been many films made recently on what might very well be the hottest topic of our new century. This video is based on Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke's call to arms Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water, and features eloquent testimonials from them as well as from the likes of the ever-admirable Vandana Shiva. This is a trailor of the larger documentary.

More info: Blue Green Algae

Crystal-clear lakes near Montreal are threatened by algae blooms caused by chemical pollution from home and golf courses.

More info: Assignment Earth
Produced by: Assignment Earth
Year:
Language: English

A new and different way of discovering the world behind the delta of the River Danube: a river that for hundreds of years has marked important boundaries in Europe until January 2007 when it ceased to act as "borderline.." between neighbouring countries, becoming a free and entirely European river. This is a trailer of the full 60 minutes documentary.

More info:
Produced by: BC Today
Year:
Language: n/a

CSIR researchers, in collaboration with North-West University, are working to treat brackish groundwater using nanofiltration membranes.
The two organisations and a local industry partner, Malutsa, is forming a joint venture with a Greek consortium called Nanopure, and plan to develop various nanotechnology methods for the treatment of water.
The project will be funded by the European Union.
 
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This video is part of the series 'Scenes of Science, videos from the Agicultural Research Service.' It shows a method to protect surface water from animal manure with grass buffer strips.

More info: www.ars.usda.gov
Produced by:
Year: 2007
Language: English

David Kuria is one of the Changemakers finalists, a competition sponsored by Ashoka and Global Water Challenge to find and support social entrepreneurs with innovative approaches to providing water and sanitation. David runs Ecotact Limited, a Kenyan company dedicated to bringing public toilets to an area where there were only two for 60,000 people.

David Kuria is one of the Changemakers finalists, a competition sponsored by Ashoka and Global Water Challenge to find and support social entrepreneurs with innovative approaches to providing water and sanitation. David runs Ecotact Limited, a Kenyan company dedicated to bringing public toilets to an area where there were only two for 60,000 people.

More info: www.globalwaterchallenge.org
Produced by...

For the period from 2002 to the present time the saga of the Bujagali Dam in Uganda was followed which will have devastating environmental and social impacts. The dam will drown a large section of the Nile River as it flows out of Lake Victoria and the Bujagali Rapids will be a memory.
This video tracks six stories of resettlement based on interviews with people who were moved around 2001/2002 at the 1st visit, and then again in 2006.

More info: Bujagali Dam: A Climate Sensitive Investment?

The Bujagali dam should provide Uganda with the energy the country desperately needs. But problems have been surrounding the project ever since it started. Because of the dam, lands of the local people will be submerged, changing the local environment drastically and giving people fewer options to use their natural resources. At the same time the water level of Lake Victoria (that supplies the dam with water) is dropping because of global climate change. Therefore the dam will likely produce ...

Discussion among farmers on how to build bunds in a spate irrigation system, Pakistan

More info: MetaMeta
Produced by: MetaMeta
Year: 2008
Language: Urdu

Buzz and Bite is a multiple award-winning malaria prevention campaign based on a series of 30 animated short spots. (PSAs) in 40 languages featuring two animated talking female anpheles mosquitoes. The PSAs are available to any television broadcaster, radio station, NGO, hospital, doctor, community group, university, school, educator or other user, free of charge, anywhere in the world.

More info: www.malariacampaign.ca
Produced by...

This video shows the Campaign Against Malaria of the Canadian Red Cross. This campaign is based on a simple strategy: disease prevention. The Red Cross distributes long-lasting insecticide-treated mosquito nets.

More info: Canadian Red Cross
Produced by: Canadian Red Cross
Year:
Language: English also available i...

An apartment. Bedtime. A little girl lovingly watches a fish (a carp) swimming in an aquarium, while her younger brother is playing in the bathroom, listening to music and letting the water run in the sink. A waste of water that could turn into tragedy.

More info: director Sergio Canella
Produced by: Amap SPA
Year: 2006
Language: n/a

This movie is about the ceremony for the 'Stockholm Junior Water Prize' competition 2007.

"The international Stockholm Junior Water Prize competition brings together the world?s brightest young scientists to encourage their continued interest in water and the environment."

Please check the website of the Stockholm International Water Institute for more details on this competition and SIWI.
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This movie is about the ceremony for the 'Stockholm Junior Water Prize' competition 2008.

"The international Stockholm Junior Water Prize competition brings together the world?s brightest young scientists to encourage their continued interest in water and the environment."

Please check the website of the Stockholm International Water Institute for more details on this competition and SIWI.

More info: Changing Climate Water Wise

Watch Senior Meteorologist Elissa Lynn and Executive Manager of Climate Change John Andrew explain the impacts of climate change on California's water.

More info: http://www.water.ca.gov/climatechange
Produced by:
Year:
Language: English

Seva Mandir's Constructive work with the rural tribal communities of Udaipur Rajasthan India. The organization has been operational for more than four decades now. The short film attempts to resolve the assumption that the development work does take time and that working with communities needs the constructive approach of development.

More info: www.sevamandir.org
Produced by: Seva Mandir
Year:  2007
Languag...

In this video Richard Meganck explains why he values TheWaterChannel and tells us who can benefit from these mutimedia resources.

Richard A. Meganck is Rector of the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft, the Netherlands. His career includes twenty-seven years working in international development and management of natural resources, twenty of those with agencies in the United Nations and Inter-American systems. He holds BSc and MSc degrees from Michigan State University in W...

This part of the Windows on Training Series gives explanation on Check Dams.

More info: Andhra Pradesh Rural Livelihood Programmes (APRLP)
Produced by: APRLP
Year:
Language: English

Songwriter Richard Stilgoe discusses the new songs he's written. Find out how you can get involved in this great new project from WaterAid!

More info: www.wateraid.org
Produced by: WaterAid
Year:
Language: English

Al Jazeera news item on cholera outbreak in Afghanistan. As if living in a country at war was not bad enough, the people of Afghanistan are battling a new outbreak of cholera. At least 20 people have been killed so far - most of them women and children. Health workers blame poor sanitation and a lack of clean water.

More info: AlJazeera
Produced by: AlJazeera
Year: 2008
Language: English

Are we still embraced by the nature and the birds as our ancestors did between flowing streams and hidden gardens? This is a short documentary about water and green space in several cities and locations. It tells the need of nature in the growing cities through imaginary talks of people and birds, with a note to the upcoming World Expo 2010 in Shanghai.

More info: naturearch.wordpress.com.cn
Produced by...

Video, from 1941, on how New York City is supplied with water, how water is quality is tested and how water resources are protected from pollution.

More info: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Produced by: ERPI Classroom Films 
Year: 1941
Language: English

Obtaining drinking water is a great problem for many people living in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso. Many wells are polluted; public water sources are usually far awar, and mobile water sellers charge high prices. Setting up further public taps and water connections will give residents access to safe drinking water and thus lay the foundations for better health.

More info: www.bmz.de 
Produced by: BMZ in coop...

This video presents better use of the water of the Inner Niger Delta in a changing climate.

More info: Wetlands International
Produced by: XO Media
Year: 2008
Language: English

Oxfam New Zealand is organising a massive HAKA to challenge the New Zealand government to take strong action on climate change.

More info: oxfam.org.nz/feeltheheat
Produced by: Oxfam
Year: 2009
Language: English

This film covers parts of Nalgonda District, Andhra Pradesh State, India. This is one of the worst affected fluorosis parts in India. These kind of instances are increasing in different regions of the world, due to over exploitation of groundwater, climate variability, climate change, mismanagement of natural resources and ultimately increase in population.

More info: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Produced by: Dr. N. S...

This short film illustrates how people in Bangladesh are meeting the challenges of climate change.

More info: www.dfid.gov.uk
Produced by: DFID
Year: 
Language: English

In Pucarumi, a small community in the foothills of the snow-capped Peruvian Andes, Felipe mulls the fate of the life-giving Ausangate glacier. Year after year, the great white glacier of his boyhood has receded and slowly turned black.

More info: The World Bank
Produced by: The World Bank
Year: 2007
Language: Spanish with English subtitles

In West Virginia critics warn public health and safety are threatened by coal waste from power plants that is stored in hundreds of slurry ponds or injected underground.

More info: Assignment Earth
Produced by: Assignment Earth
Year:
Language: English

This video tells the story of Baranquilla's gate in Colombia where a unique community of fishermen has formed. As it became more and more difficult to catch fish immediately from the shore of the Magdalena River, they developed in the last thirty years a new technique - fishing with kites!
The video also described the past and possible future development on this mighty river.

More info: www.vjmovement.com...

Full title: Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change, Sakai, Kenya.
Recognizing the high vulnerability of African countries to the impacts of climate change, the project "Integrating Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change into Sustainable Development Policy Planning and Implementation in Eastern and Southern Africa" (ACCESA) was initiated by the United Nations Environment Programme with the support of the Global Environment Facility. The project is providing support for commu...

This video shows examples of projects where a community driven approach is used in Integrated Water Resources Management in South Africa.

More info: www.iwrm.co.za or contact Tshiamo Matabane, IWRM Programme Manager, Department of Water Affairs and Forestry at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Produced by: Di Tatham for Rockhopper TV
Year: 2008
Language: Afrikaans and English with Englis...

Watch this video to learn about the unique and pioneering Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) project in Cambodia, which links 13 community forestry groups in the province of Oddar Meanchey with the international voluntary carbon market. This project will lead to long-term protection of forest resources, improved livelihoods for forest-dependent communities, and effective sequestering of forest carbon to reduce global warming.

Watch this video to learn about the unique and pioneering Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) project in Cambodia, which links 13 community forestry groups in the province of Oddar Meanchey with the international voluntary carbon market. This project will lead to long-term protection of forest resources, improved livelihoods for forest-dependent communities, and effective sequestering of forest carbon to reduce global warming.

More info: Community-led Total Sanitation in Bangladesh

Through what is now known as the CLTS approach, it is explained to communities defecating in the open that they end up eating each others sh*t! The resulting shock/shame results in the communities demanding for/adopting more hygienic sanitation practices. In 2004, Plan introduced CLTS in over 200 villages in the Dinajpur District of Bangladesh.  By 2007, al...

This short clip, produced for the Sana'a Basin Water Management Project (SBWMP) & National Water Resource Authority - Sana'a Basin (NWRA-SB), compares the flood irrigation system with the modern irrigation system.

More info: IWRM group on Facebook
Produced by: IWRM group. Idea and scenario by Eng. Abdulkhaleq Alwan. Sound by Mr. Saleem Al-Ramah. Coordination by Eng. Saad Alhawsali Mont...

La vallée des Aït Bouguemez au Maroc est une enclave du Haut Atlas s'étendant sur une trentaine de kilomètres à 2000 mètres d'altitude où vivent 13000 habitants Berbères Tachelhits. Pour subsister dans cet espace montagnard difficile, les habitants ont mis en place une multitude de règles et d'institutions coutumières visant à réguler l'utilisation de l'eau d'irrigation, ressource instable et à l'origine de nombreux conflits. Aujourd'hui, le recours aux institutions moderne (AUEA)introduites ...

En France, les associations syndicales agricoles qui ont en chatge la gestion des canaux d'irrigations doivent faire face à de nouveaux défis dus aux nouveaux usagers de l'eau d'une part et aux nouvelles directives européennes.

More info: ISIIM
Produced by: Agropolis International
Year: 2007
Language: French

This film explores the impacts of global warming on coastal cities. As the ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland melt, sea levels rise. This poses significant challenges and requires action on the part of coastal cities like Jakarta, Rotterdam, New York and Alexandria. In this film scientists and policy makers of each city share their view on current problems and explain future plans. The film shows that all coastal cities face similar problems - problems that can be tackled more efficiently...

There are many problems with poor seed, and spotted and discolored seed are some of the major ones. These spotted seeds could not be removed by winnowing or seed floatation. They can only be removed by manual sorting. By seeing this video you will learn how to clean seed as one of the interventions to produce and use healthy seed.

More information: www.africaricecenter.org
Produced by: Africa Rice Center<...

Video on the process of building constructed wetlands.

More info: www.ecofyt.nl
Produced by: AVT
Year: 2001
Language: English

ABC news item on bottled water compared to tap water.

More info: ABC news
Produced by: ABC news
Year: 2008
Language: English

This part of the Windows on Training Series gives explanation on Continuous Contour Trenches.

More info: Andhra Pradesh Rural Livelihood Programmes (APRLP)
Produced by: APRLP
Year:
Language: English

This part of the Windows on Training Series gives explanation on Cover Crops.

More info: Andhra Pradesh Rural Livelihood Programmes (APRLP)
Produced by: APRLP
Year:
Language: English

Over 1.1 billion people in the world don't have access to clean drinking water. The LifeStraw Family uses nanotechnology (called hollow tubes) to filter water down to 25 nanometers and meets US EPA guidelines as a microbiological water purifier. They claim that one LifeStraw Family can purify enough water for a family of five for up to three years.

For more information about the LifeStraw Family: http://lifestraw.com For technical info, here are the results from a study by the Universi...

Television Spot by Centre for Science and Environment encouraging Rainwater Harvesting.

More info: www.cse.org
Produced by: Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi
Year:
Language: NA 

The CSIR studied the Cape's Table Mountain Group aquifer in an attempt to understand how it supports rivers and wetlands in the fynbos biome. The research confirmed that the ecological role of the aquifer is critical in terms of maintaining hydrodiversity in the fynbos. The research also helped the City Council of Cape Town understand the feasibility of using the resource for bulk water supply.
 

More info: CSIR
Produce...

Explorando las aguas de Guanajuato, es una serie que busca comprender y difundir la situación de los usuarios, así mismo promueve mejores hábitos que ayuden a contruis un mejor futuro con agua.

More info: www.guanajuato.gob.mx/ceag
Produced by: Gobierno del estado, comisión estatal del agua
Year:
Language: Spanish

This cyclone occured in Andhra Pradesh, India on 29th October, 2005. This cyclone has caused widespread destruction in most parts of Andhra Pradesh State (India), affecting the standing crops and the livelihoods of rural people. This is one of the outcomes of climate variability and climate change events happening all over the world. This video covers tracking of parts of the affected areas.

More info: Geoecology Energy Organ...

Full title: Dam Project Threatens 11,000-Year-Old Turkish Village.

Hassankeyf is an 11,000 year old village situated at the shore of the Tigris River, in the southeast of Turkey. A place that meets six of the eight criteria to be a World Heritage site. But the Turkish government hasn't applied for the UNESCO heritage. The plans are to build the so called Iliusu Dam, which would completely cover Hassankeyf.
In this video several people give their opinion about the projec...

Damalwadi and Wazar were two drought prone villages of Maharashtra, where availability of drinking water was a perennial problem. The women were the most affected by this. The requirements to implement WOTR's clean and safe drinking water project were doable yet challenging. This film tells the story of Damalwadi. Click here to watch the story of Wazar.

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Set against the storms of 1953 in Zeeland, The Netherlands, this film tells the story of a young farmer's daughter, Julia (Hoeks), who is rescued against her will from a storm by a young airforce sergeant (Atsma) and is forced to leave her baby son behind in the rising water. Julia is grief-stricken but the sergeant is determined to make amends and help her find her son.

'This film is set against one of the most pivotal moments in our country's history', producer Alain de Levita s...

Andhra Pradesh Farmer Managed Groundwater Systems (APFAMGS) project's key premise is behavioural change leading to voluntary self regulation. In seven drought prone districts of Andhra Pradesh, India, thousands of farmers residing in 638 habitations spread over several hundred kilometers have voluntarily taken number of steps to reduce groundwater pumping, for tiding over problem of groundwater depletion

More info: APFAM...

This video provides a vivid- and dramatic-portrait of the growing threat to health by dengue, a painful and life-threatening in spread by the bite of Aedes mosquito.

More info: WHO
Produced by: WHO
Year: 1994
Language: English

India has over 22 million bore-wells and its dependancy on groundwater is estimated at 65% of total water demand. Borewells are running deep and are running dry. Artificial recharge through rainwater harvesting is one approach to top up bore-well waters along with demand management. Rooftop rainwater harvesting, filtering the rainwater and then recharging it directly into the borewell is one approach. This experiment tries to understand how much rainwater can be directly fed into the bore-wel...

This video explains measures Japan took to prevent natural disasters.
The video discusses barriers, embankments, dams, early warning systems, satellites, standard building codes, etc. Education plays an important role in disaster reduction in the future. Initiatives like community walks and children contests are shown.
The video ends by showing examples from all over the world where Japan worked together with local disaster reduction teams. 
As the situation is alarming ...

An interactive experience for all ages, guided by PLOPPY, you are brought closer to the world of groundwater,its use and there with related problems and solutions.

More info: This educative CD with Ploppy is available in English or in Spanish.  
Produced by: Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia - Instituto Geólogico y Miner...

A mini film festival took place as a side event at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali (COP13) in 2008. The films cover issues related to climate and development. This video captures the plight of one village on Mali in the face of climate change.

More info: Salimata Wade at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or Oumar Sango at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  
Produced by: Capacity Strengthening of Least Develop...

This video explains how System of Rice Intensification (SRI) works. It shows experiences in Cambodia. SRI is an alternative system of cultivating rice - meant to use less water.

More info: ciifad.cornell.edu/SRI/index.html
Produced by: Mind's Eye production for Oxfam America and CEDAC
Year:
Language: Khmer with English subtitles

Since 1996 KickStart has been the leader in micro-irrigation technologies through the development and sales of its popularly known series of manually operated "MoneyMaker" pumps. Watch this video by Maasai rap artist Mr. Ebbo to learn more about this life-changing technology.

More info: www.kickstart.org 
Produced by: KickStart
Year: 2006
Language: English subtitles

Dr Rajendra Pachauri - chairman of the intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - speaks about Energy Sources and the Developing World.

2020 Vision is a campaign to inspire people into action on climate change. 

More info: http://www.planet-positive.org/Vision2020 
Produced by: Planet Positive
Year: 2009
Language: English

Have you seen the Hollywood film Erin Brokovich? This is a reality in Gujarat - a major industrial state of India. Apna Malak Maa productions revproductions reveals the hideous truth of poisoned water in the villages which is causing a rampant spread of flourosis - disease from unhealthy flouride levels in water. This film is for the campaign demanding a water treatment plant, which successfuly lead to over 600 villages in Gujarat receiving healthy drinking water!

More info: Apna Malak...

This video shows a WWF-Turkey project on drip irrigation in Konya Closed Basin.

More info: WWF-Turkey
Produced by: WWF-Turkey
Year: 2008
Language: Turkish with English subtitles

The Fereydoonkenar Abandaan (traditional water reservoir) in Mazandran, Iran is a Ramsar wetland conservation site. In the Abandaan several ducktraps are operated.

More info: Wim Giesen,  \n This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it \"> This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Produced by: Wim Giesen
Year: 2010
Language: n/a English subtitles

Dutch teens participating in the Stockholm Junior Water Prize 2009 explain their project AquaLibra to the Dutch Minister of Water, Mrs Tineke Huizinga.

More info: Knappe Waterhoofden, NWP
Produced by: Mathijs Mul, Marieke Droogsma, Anke Santema
Year: 2009
Language: Dutch

This is a video about the Dutch water system: production and consumption of drinking water, wastewater collection, removal, and treatment, followed by return of the purified water back to nature.

More info: www.riool.info
Produced by:
Year:
Language: Dutch

This documentary explains the Megawatershed paradigm, its global implications and EarthWater's unique approach to discovering these vast, renewable groundwater resources.

More info: Earth Water Global
Produced by: Emmy Award, David Felsen and Three Human Inc.
Year: 2008
Language: English

This part of the Windows on Training Series gives explanation on Earthen Bund and Borrow Area for Mini Percolation Tanks.

More info: Andhra Pradesh Rural Livelihood Programmes (APRLP)
Produced by: APRLP
Year:
Language: English

In 2008 - for the first time in history - more than half of the world's population; 3.3 billion will live in urban areas according to the UN. This was announced in a documentary entitled \"Eco-Cities, Sustainable cities for the Future\" which was launched by IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature - West Asia/Middle East Regional Office and Ministry of Environment during the Eco-Cities of the Mediterranean 2008 conference held in Jordan from 18-20 October, 2008.
This vide...

The CSIR is studying the ecological health of two river catchments in the Waterberg in South Africa's Limpopo basin. Researchers are developing indicators that will tell the story of the area's current health, enabling them to predict future changes. During the study the researchers discovered a rare species of protozoa, never before cited in Africa, or in a river. This species is extremely sensitive to heavy metals in water and occurs only in water with very high light penetration.
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Dans les grands périmètres irrigués du Maroc. Limitant l'agriculture, une pénurie d'eau s'installe. De grands pionniers mettent en place le goutte-à-goutte pour agrumes, maraîchage, maïs ensilage? Ailleurs, des communautés réussissent un tel pari par des projets collectifs, profitant au plus grand nombre.

More info: www.eau-sirma.net
Produced by: Ena Cnerv Cirad
Year: 2009
Language: Fren...

Sourabh Phadke has built this beautiful Shendriya Shouchalaya in a village in Pune district.

More info: Zenrainman
Produced by: Zenrainman
Year:
Language: Marathi with English subtitles

A typical small mountainous village in Stara Zagora Municipality in central Southern Bulgaria. Sultisa has 260 inhabitants spread over 180 households, comprising mostly aged retirees. The Houses are connected to a local centralized water supply system.
During the 2,5 year project, Developing a Model for Sustainable Water and Waste Management in Rural Areas in Bulgaria, three complete EcoSan systems were built in this village to demonstrate effective, low cost alternatives to the conven...

This video shows the sustainable sanitation project in Kazakhstan. As the traditional sanitation is not a viable option dry toilets are used.

More info: WECF - Empowerment and Local Action
Produced by: WECF, Elena Efimoua
Year: 2009
Language: Russian

Sustainable sanitation is the holy grail that is being chased in both developed and developing world. Ecosan, ecological sanitation, is a system where usually source separation of urine and faeces is done. These are then hygienically treated and reused for their nutrient value Ecosan toilet in an urban area and that too on a first floor.The source separating pan ensures that urine and faeces is collected separately. The system has been designed for the Indian condition, squatters (not sitters...

This video provides details on the ForestFirst research project on irrigating trees with effluent and clear water irrigation. This project is in partnership with the Town of Outlook, the Irrigation Branch of the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture. The video information includes details on irrigation equipment and sprinkler types used in the project.

More info: El agua en los hogares y su uso responsable

Explorando las aguas de Guanajuato, es una serie que busca comprender y difundir la situación de los usuarios, así mismo promueve mejores hábitos que ayuden a contruis un mejor futuro con agua.

More info: www.guanajuato.gob.mx/ceag
Produced by: Gobierno del estado, comisión estatal del agua
Year:
Language: Spanish

La película recorre el proceso de mejoramiento urbano implementado con el apoyo del IIED-AL en tres asentamientos informales del Municipio de San Fernando en la Región Metropolitana de Buenos Aires, según de la visión de 7 miembros de la communidad, del Presidente del Consejo Deliberante y de la directora del IIED-AL. Reflexiona sobre el trabajo realizado a lo largo de 20 años, explicando los desafíos y las estrategias utilizadas para superarlos, y examina puntos clave relacio-nados al trabaj...

Explorando las aguas de Guanajuato, es una serie que busca comprender y difundir la situación de los usuarios, así mismo promueve mejores hábitos que ayuden a contruis un mejor futuro con agua.

More info: www.guanajuato.gob.mx/ceag
Produced by: Gobierno del estado, comisión estatal del agua
Year:
Language: Spanish

Explorando las aguas de Guanajuato, es una serie que busca comprender y difundir la situación de los usuarios, así mismo promueve mejores hábitos que ayuden a contruis un mejor futuro con agua.

More info: www.guanajuato.gob.mx/ceag
Produced by: Gobierno del estado, comisión estatal del agua
Year:
Language: Spanish

Full title: Environmentally friendly wastewater treatment plant in Linge/Mithuania.
The Global Environmental Fund's Small Grant Programme provided funding to install an environmentally friendly wastewater treatment plant in Minge, a small community living in an area sensitive to water pollution. This enabled the residents of this picturesque fishing village to develop infrastructure for rural and water tourism, thus creating additional income opportunities.

More info: Erik Nissen-Petersen: Infonet Biovision

In this interview with TheWaterChannel Erik Nissen-Peter explains the importance of the right communicational methods. 
The latest development is Infonet Biovision which has a large section on water focusing on water as a business. 
Biovision is a web-based information tool offering trainers, extension workers and farmers mainly in Africa quick access to up-to-date and locally relevant information.
The information of Biovision which will be placed later on mobile phones b...

In this interview with TheWaterChannel Erik Nissen-Petersen explains about the scope for rainwater harvesting in Eastern Africa.
He gives a short overview of the history of water harvesting structures and explains about simple techniques which can be implemented by farmers themselves.

More information: www.waterforaridland.com
Produced by: TheWaterChannel
Year: 2010
Language: English

This short clip, produced for the Sana'a Basin Water Management Project (SBWMP) & National Water Resource Authority - Sana'a Basin (NWRA-SB), shows that water is essential for our life and that we have to safe it.

More Information:  IWRM group on Facebook 
Produced by: Public awareness team
Year: 
Language: Arabic 

This video describes the functions of the forest. The forest not only deliveres fodder, fuel wood and building material, it has also an important function as seed bank.

More info: Excellent!
Produced by: Excellent Development Limited
Year: 2006
Language: English

CSE latest film shows the relationship between rich man's shit and poor man's water.

More info: Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
Produced by: CSE
Year:
Language: English

Semi-arid lands have typically rainfall between 300 mm to 750 mm. Rainfall is sporadic and usually less than 30 rainy days. When a downpour occurs which is more than 30 mm surface runoff needs to be captured. This can then be used as supplementary irrigation when rainfall fails to occur over more than 7 to 10 days and the crops need lifeline water. By incorporating a rabbit hutch and a chicken coop, the droppings are used to rear fish in the farm pond. The water too has richer nutrients for t...

This film tells the story of oasis farmers who have moved to the Abu Minqar oasis, deep into the Sahara Desert, to create new livelihoods for themselves away from Egypt’s overcrowded Nile Valley.
The film shows how farmers strive towards a more sustainable use of finite groundwater for farming Egypt’s Western Desert. The documentary is based on data generated throughout a three-year participatory research project the DDC conducted in Abu Minqar. An interdisciplinary, intern...

This part of the Windows on Training Series gives explanation on Feeder Channels & Supply Channels to tanks.

More info: Andhra Pradesh Rural Livelihood Programmes (APRLP)
Produced by: APRLP
Year:
Language: English

This video shows urban agriculture in Ghana.

More info: ileia.leisa.info
Produced by: Ileia, Mildred Samuel
Year:
Language: English

Hicham El Hadrami from Marocco won the 3rd price ex-equo of the Festival VidéEAU 2008

More info: RIEC-IWFE
Produced by: Hicham El Hadrami
Year: 2008 
Language: English

Matthew Fournier and Simon Leblanc from Canada won the 3rd price ex-equo of the Festival VidéEAU 2008.

More info: RIEC-IWFE
Produced by: Matthew Fournier and Simon Leblanc
Year: 2008
Language: English, French, Spanish

Yurina Luis Naranjo from Cuba won the 1st price of the Festival VidéEAU 2008.

More info: RIEC-IWFE
Produced by: Yurina Luis Naranjo
Year: 2008
Language: n/a 

Roger Emanuel Lourenso Santos from Brazil won the 2nd price of the Festival VidéEAU 2008.

More info: RIEC-IWFE
Produced by: Roger Emanuel Lourenso Santos
Year: 2008
Language: English

Based on the last available statistics, Africa accounts for a staggering 99% of the global total of cholera-related deaths. And still, the burden of the disease is grossly underestimated. Most research in Africa has so far been incident based with no concerted effort towards long term suveillance in any of the cholera prone areas.

To fill this gap, a multidisciplinary team from the CSIR emarked on a three-year project on the coastal and fresh water sources around the Mozambican...

The Arabian Sea is one of the world?s richest fisheries, yet until recently fishermen living along its coast in Yemen remained desperately poor. This short video looks at how an IFAD-supported project helped transform poor fishermen into successful fish exporters, who now sell their catch to buyers from Saudi Arabia, Japan and Europe.

More info: IFAD and www.ruralpoverty.org<...

Modern commercial fishing fleets are very effective in catching fish and this has led to some of the coastal fishing grounds being almost exhausted. In Mozambique, Government policy on the industrial fleet was amended, and the local fishing communities learned some new habits.

More info: IFAD and www.ruralpoverty.org  
Produced by: IFAD
Year: 2008
Language: English...

Bangladesh is one of the most susceptible countries in the world to climate change. The rising sea levels are contributing to river and coastal erosion while higher atmospheric temperature and intense storms are causing widespread floods. One island that is severely affected by flooding is East Holdibari in North West Bangladesh. However, Holdibari's children are fighting back, and have created an action plan to prepare for future floods. This film is an entry to a micro-documentary film cont...

This video is part of the series 'Scenes of Science, videos from the Agicultural Research Service.' It shows the use of native plants to help prevent soil eroision, revegetation, improvement of the quality of water shed and improvement of biodiversity.

More info: www.ars.usda.gov
Produced by:
Year: 2007
Language: English

This video shows lessons learned from the Participatory Watershed Management Project in Hoanh Bo District, Quang Ninh Province, Vietnam.

More info: FAO Vietnam
Produced by: Images for Development Production by Arjen During
Year:
Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

Local cooperatives in irrigation schemes.
Two cooperatives at a local level, organised around milk and oranges, contribute to the development of their communities. Leadership, visible results, and a solid professional reputation make for a better future in rural Morocco.

More info: www.eau-sirma.net
Produced by: Ena Cnerv Cirad
Year: 2009
Language: Arabic, also available in 

Local cooperatives in irrigation schemes.
Two cooperatives at a local level, organised around milk and oranges, contribute to the development of their communities. Leadership, visible results, and a solid professional reputation make for a better future in rural Morocco.

More info: www.eau-sirma.net
Produced by: Ena Cnerv Cirad
Year: 2008
Language: English, also available in From Kathmandu to Copenhagen - climate change

Full title: From Kathmandu to Copenhagen - climate change in Nepal.
Video report on the climate change challenges being faced by the people of Nepal, and why achieving an ambitious and equitable deal at the Copenhagen conference in December is critical. Featuring Dawa Sherpa and Ajaya Dixit.

More info: www.dfid.gov.uk
Produced by: DFID
Year: 2009
Language: English

Together the two award-winning documentaries, "A Journey in the History of Water", and "The Future of Water", include almost seven hours of footage from more than 30 countries all over the world. The programs present fascinating, varying and detailed accounts of human/water relations and the importance of water in social development.
The future of water in 3 parts (52 minutes each), exploring the implications of a growing, changing world for this important resource. These are the only...

For a village so small, remote and relegated to eternal poverty, one would expect its inhabitants to welcome the Watershed Programme with open arms.
Yet, the village Garamsur chose otherwise. The 'power centres' of the village felt threatened by this programme which sought to empower common people. Ostensibly, the issue raised was charaibandi or ban on free grazing, but reality, the village sought to be divided on cast lines. A group of dedicated people from the village took up the ch...

The Gediz river basin (Turkey) is one of the nine pilot areas of the project PLEIADeS (www.pleiades.es). This video tells the story of the past and current situation of water resources and irrigation in the area.

More info: PLEIADeS  
Produced by: PLEIADeS
Year:
Language: Turkish with English subtitles

This Practical Action film describes strengthening the capacity of communities to manage early warning systems (EWS) to reduce the impacts of floods in Chitwan and Nawalparasi districts of Nepal. Flood is a seasonal hazard in Nepal blighting the lives of thousands annually and destroying lives and livelihoods throughout the hills and terai. The film showcases the use of theater and song for awareness raising and demonstrates how communities can build their own physical defenses.

More in...

Ghana's rice farmers have surplus produce lying wasted in sheds because they have to compete with the American imported rice that is artificially cheap due to the subsidisation of American farmers.

More info: Pangea Day
Produced by: Pig Farm Productions
Year: 2008
Language: Engli...

An animation video explaining the pathways to groundwater contamination, and simple ways to purify water. Animation & Design by Chris Weller Produced by Max Joseph Music by Jovian.

More info:www.good.is
Produced by: GOOD
Year:
Language: English 

Full title: Green Glaciers: the Melting Grasslands of the Tibetan Plateau.
WWF and ClimateChangeWater.org visited the Tibetan Plateau of China to see how climate change was impacting the herding livelihoods and ecosystems of these high-altitude grasslands.

More info: climatechangewater.org
Produced by: ClimateChangeWater.org
Year: 2010
Language: English

Vast quantities of acid mine drainage are generated in South Africa. This affects the water quality of the country's rivers and dams.
The CSIR has done various studies into acid mine drainage and can now demonstrate the biological process to clean up mine water using micro-organisms powered by grass cellulose.

More info: CSIR
Produced by: CSIR
Year: 2009
Language: English

This video explains issues on groundwater in The Netherlands. Groundwater in The Netherlands consists mainly of precipitation over the last 10,000 years. Rainfall infiltrates and recharges the groundwater. It can also be recharged by rivers and canals. In dune areas artificial recharge takes place which is the main drinking water resource in the Western part of The Netherlands. A decline in groundwater levels can have major impact on nature reserves, but also on urban areas where subsidence c...

Southern Willamette Valley, Oregon. A video documenting a tour of the Groundwater Management Area. Attendees discussed groundwater issues related to nitrate contamination.

More info: Institute for Water and Watersheds Oregon State University
Produced by: Doorbell Production, Sarah Sheldrick
Year: 2008
Language: English

Since the 1990s agriculture, pollution and poor land management have been taking a severe toll on the river system on the Mexico/Guatemala border. A major culprit is the region's economically-important coffee growing industry. But recently there have been big changes in the way much of this coffee is grown, changes driven by the coffee industry itself. Global demand for certified and organically grown coffee is booming and producing a dividend for river systems in an area that currently produ...

This video addresses issues around transboundary aquifers. Interventions at one side of the border have impact on the other side of the border.
Tensions rise where water is scarce. Examples of Kenya and Uganda are given. The video shows also some examples of cooperative solutions in India and emphasizes the importance of collecting, analyizing and sharing data.

More info: IGRAC and

Climate change and human impact have a global impact on our groundwater. The more we know about the specific challenges, the better we will be able to deal with them.

More info: IGRAC and TNO
Produced by: IGRAC and Tiffin Media
Supported by: Groundwater in deep hardrock fissures

This camera work is thanks to Mr P. Ganesh of Ayyappa Aqua Solutions . Here we see how fissures in hard rock discharge water into a bore-hole. Typically fissures are observed between 80 to 400 feet in this hard rock terrain. Yields of water are very less ranging from 1000 litres to 6000 litres per hour. Bore wells being in semi-arid parts of India, annual rainfall is also low ranging from 300 to 800 mm. Soil moisture is in deficit for 10 out of 12 months and approximately only 5 to 8% of rain...

This short film discusses conflicts, mediation and cooperation around the topic of groundwater. A source of water that has high potentiality but is often neglected or overexploited.

More info: www.sgmediation.eu and www.metameta.nl
Produced by: Rozemarijn ter Horst
Year: 2010
Language: English

This short film shows the proposal elaboration workshop in Amman Jordan of the GP consortium: Mekele University, OWWDSE, PWA, WEC - Sana'a University, MetaMeta, TU Delft.
The GP consortium discusses how politics can be better engaged in challenges of groundwater resources management. 

More info: www.sgmediation.eu and www.metameta.nl
Produced by: ...

Not many people realize that 99 percent of the freshwater we use is groundwater. This video helps people worldwide to understand the importance of groundwater.

More info: IGRAC and TNO
Produced by: IGRAC and Tiffin Media
Supported by: Groundwater The long run

This video describes the consequence of human activities on groundwater systems.
First, the case of the decline of the Aral Sea is explained; two rivers draining the Aral Sea were diverted to irrigate farmland. Grain and cotton were produced to secure food availabilty and to provide economic stimulance to the area. Eventually the Aral Sea was left dry.
In the Netherlands the Dutch drained the low lying peatlands to increase their farmland area. Negative impacts of this drainage ...

This video shows, in a broad outline, the various activities of TNO?s groundwater department, interesting topics are touched upon, such as: groundwater research, groundwater monitoring, archiving of groundwater data, information system development and institution building abroad. The video illustrates the groundwater related problems in a densely populated and industrialised country like the Netherlands.

More info: TNO
...

The village of Mvungayane, like many villages in rural South Africa, still faces challenges such as unreliable water supply; poor sanitary facilities, poverty and HIV/AIDS.
In a project that addresses both social and economic impacts, the CSIR has helped the community establish a small-medium enterprise named Isulabasha, which trades in water and sanitation-related services. The new business is supported through a CSIR-developed handwashing dispenser and by assistance from the CSIR wit...

AlJazeeraEnglish - May 15, 2009. Most of the Arabian Peninsula is desert, and the people who live there have always struggled to find fresh water. Now, the region relies on desalinated seawater for most of its needs - from drinking water to irrigation. But as Steff Gaulter report, the dozens of fresh-water factories across the Gulf have a high environmental cost.

More info: english.aljazeera.net
Produced ...

This part of the Windows on Training Series gives explanation on Gully Control Works & Sunken Pits.

More info: Andhra Pradesh Rural Livelihood Programmes (APRLP)
Produced by: APRLP
Year:
Language: English

A film that depicts the positive impact of a well conceived and properly implemented programme which provided a concrete solution to the hapless labour. It shows how the disgusted labour who were forced to migrate remained back in the village to take up the tank desiltation activities with the support of local administration, NGO and farmers. It reflects a message that if the developmental programmes are implemented properly and effectively, true to their spirit and stated objectives, they wo...

This documentary about floating houses in The Netherlands was broadcasted on the German television station ZDF.

More info: ZDF
Produced by: Ina D'hondt
Year:
Language: German

Short video on impact of dirty water on health.

More info: Excellent!
Produced by: Excellent Development Limited
Year: 2006
Language: English

Fantan is a small and isolated village. Three years ago there was an outbreak of the disease tularaemia caused by pollution of the water supply system.
This documentary shows the measures taken by the NGO "Armenian Women for Health and a Healthy Environment" to install a new, hygienic, indoor seperation toilet system for the village school of Fantan.

More info: Women in Europe for a Common Future (WECF)
Produc...

This 4 min micro-documentary illustrates the story of how Bushmen have adapted to scarcity for 30,000 years, and what we can learn before it is too late for them...or us. Interview with author James Workman.

More info: www.heartofdryness.com
Produced by:
Year: 2009
Language: English

This film describes how water from rivers flows through the Netherlands. The Dutch Ministry of Water Management together with the Water Boards tries to regulate the water flow ensuring there's neither too little nor too much water anywhere.
The viewer will visit four locations used for water distribution in the Netherlands: a bifurcation point in the Rhine, a weir in Driel, a pumping station in Zutphen, and finally the Haringvliet sluice gates. Each location has its own role in the ...

Highlights from the H2 09 Forum in New York, September 2009.

More info: NWP
Produced by:
Year:
Language: English

In 200.000 years on earth humanity has upset the balance of the planet, established by nearly fou billion years of evolution. The price to pay is high, but it's not too late to be a pessimist: humanity has barely ten years to reverse the tren, become aware of the full extent of its spoliation of the Earth's riches and change its patterns of consumption.

More info: http://www.home-2009.com/us/index.html
Produced by:
Year: 20...

Shot on location in China, Rwanda and Ethiopia, Hope in a Changing Climate is being broadcast globally by BBC World and screened in 19 nations. The film documents the uplifting story of how ecosystem restoration helps stabilize climate, reduce poverty, and support sustainable agriculture.

More info: www.hopeinachangingclimate.org
Produced by: Environmental Education Media Project
Year: 2009<...

Africa is the continent that will be hit hardest by climate change. Unpredictable rains and floods, prolonged droughts, subsequent crop failures, and rapid desertifications, among others, have in fact already begun to change the face of our continent.

More info: Heinrich Böll Foundation
Produced by: produced for the Heinrich Böll Foundation by Marc Engelhardt (camera: Leila Knüppel)
...

This video, produced by the UK Groundwater Forum, helps explain the important role that groundwater plays in the environment. The video shows the contribution groundwater makes to the flow in Britain’s rivers and in doing so provides some basic information on groundwater, subsurface dynamics and the hydrological cycle as a whole.

More info: UK groundwaterforum
Produced by: UK Groundwater Forum
Year...

More info: www.thehumanexcretaindex.com
Produced by: WASTE
Year: 2005
Language:...

India. A documentary in which people from 7 countries (China, India, Palestina, Peru, Uganda, South Africa and Sweden) tell about their urgent need for appropriate sanitation in their neighbourhoods and their experiences in the use of ecological sanitation.

More info: www.thehumanexcretaindex.com
Produced by: WASTE
Year: 2005

More info: www.thehumanexcretaindex.com
Produced by: WASTE
Year: 2005
Language:...

More info: www.thehumanexcretaindex.com
Produced by: WASTE
Year: 2005
Lan...

Sweden. A documentary in which people from 7 countries (China, India, Palestina, Peru, Uganda, South Africa and Sweden) tell about their urgent need for appropriate sanitation in their neighbourhoods and their experiences in the use of ecological sanitation.

More info: www.thehumanexcretaindex.com
Produced by: WASTE
Year: 2005<...

An effort to move forward legislation for a Human Right to Water in the State of California. Los Angeles says YES!

More information: Urban Semillas
Produced by: Urban Semillas
Year: 2009
Language: English

The IUCN Water programme announces the 5th World Water Forum with the PSA clip "I Am Water", aiming to draw attention to the global water crisis. This PSA is currently broadcasting on CNN Intl.

More info: 5th World Water Forum
Produced by: IUCN, World Water Council, World Water Forum 
Year: 2009
Language: English

'Su Uzmani' Olmak istiyorum (turkish title). This film shows the perspective of 10 years old Bukle Ãœnaldi on water issues. She describes her view on her future career as a 'Water Expert'.

More info: Haluk Ãœnaldi This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Produced by: Oyku Ãœnaldi
Year: 2009
Language: Turkish with English subtitles

Full title: Improving food hygiene and safety in the urban fast food sector in Ghana.
To reduce health risks at the level of food preperation 'hard ways' like inspections, restriction, and fees can be used. But there are also soft ways to reduce health risks. Soft ways are based on mutual understanding. Eight essential rules used in this method are discussed in this video.

Cooperation between IWMI, KNUST, UDS and University of Copenhagen.

More info: In the shadow of the Kilimanjaro

Tanzania. In the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro, the Pangani river is at the centre of a struggle for water. Poor rainfall in recent years has left the land, the dams, the people and animals thirsty for water. Demand is growing even as supplies diminish. Without intervention the outlook is bleak. Earth Report investigates the shortages, the conflicts and the plans to safeguard the health of the Pangani river basin.

More info:

Clean drinking water is the key to survival for hundreds of children and families seeking refuge in this crowded relief camp in Nagapattnam, India. Water-borne diseases such as cholera, typhoid and dysentry all caused by drinking contaminated water are threatening the lives of survivors of the tsunami.

More info: UNICEF 
Produced by: Kun Li
Year:
Language: English

India's government has spent millions to clean up the Yamuna River, but it remains one of the world's most polluted waterways, flowing through the capital and past the Taj Mahal.

More info: Assignment Earth
Produced by: Assignment Earth
Year:
Language: English

This film shows Swedish reporter Ragnar Hedlund's journey along the Indus. It is an attempt to understand the cause of the current problems, but above all a quest for possible solutions. Because, according to Hammad Naqi Khan, WWF Pakistan, there is light at the end of the tunnel. Camera and editing is done by Gustav Forsberg. Director and producer is Ragnar Hedlund.

More info: WWF
Produced by: Filmfönstret
Year: 2007
Language: Swedish, for INDUS not so mighty anymore

This film shows Swedish reporter Ragnar Hedlund's journey along the Indus. It is an attempt to understand the cause of the current problems, but above all a quest for possible solutions. Because, according to Hammad Naqi Khan, WWF Pakistan, there is light at the end of the tunnel.
Camera and editing is done by Gustav Forsberg. Director and producer is Ragnar Hedlund. 

More info: WWF
Produced by: Filmfönstret
Year: 2007
Language: English, for 

The municipality of Ede, The Netherlands, has started to manage its water resources in an integrated manner, also to adapt climate change impacts. Part of the strategy consists of redesign of pavement systems. To this purpose permeable pavement systems are constructed within existing and new neighborhoods. This video aims to show the high infiltration capacity of such systems.

More info: E...

IIED's Barry Dalal-Clayton recently contributed to an episode of Aljazeera's 'Inside Story' called 'Arctic Rush', which examines the concerns raised by environmental groups about the ongoing rush for resources and potential environmental harms.

More information: IIED - www.iied.org  
Produced by: AlJazeera
Year: 2008
Language: English

Managing water sustainably needs the 6 sutras to be addressed. Technical, Institutional, Financial, Legal, Social and Ecological. Here is one attempt to do that in a village in Karnataka called Golahalli.

More info: www.rainwaterclub.org
Produced by: Zenrainmain
Year:
Language: English text

How can the daily struggle for water be made easier for millions of people living in dryland?
This video shows 4 options, starting with the hund dug well, from where the yield of water can be increased by means of a subsurface dam, a weir or a sand dam.
The video gives clear schematic overviews on hydro-geology of river beds and it shows practical information on constructing sand dams.

More info: www.wa...

This video describes the Irrigation Improvement Project in Yemen - that rehabilitated two large spate irrigation systems - Wadi Zabid and Wadi Tuban. A systematic participatory approach was followed - starting with Water Users Groups that then came together in Water Users Associations (WUAs). The systems as a whole were managed by an Irrigation Council - bringing together WUAs and local government. IIP stated its work with strengthening local organization but also worked on the rehabilitation...

ERMOT is a public-private partnership established in 1997 to improve irrigation water management using Earth observation satellite data.

More info: Instituto de Desarrolo Regional
Producer: UCLM 
Year: 2003
Language: Spanish

This short clip, produced for the Sana'a Basin Water Management Project (SBWMP) & National Water Resource Authority - Sana'a Basin (NWRA-SB), shows the urgent need to implement Integrated Water Resource Management in the Sana'a basin. 

More info: IWRM group on Facebook
Produced by: IWRM group. Idea and scenario by Eng. Abdulkhaleq Alwan. Sound by Mr. Saleem Alramah. Coordination by En...

A series of short video's introducing Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) in the Caribbean.

More info: Integrating Watershed and Coastal Areas Management and IW:Learn 
Producer: Bucco Reef Trust
Year: 2007
Language: English

JointhePipe.org is the first social network of tap water drinkers.
People from all over the world sharing the same dream: building the longest water pipe in the world. Long enough to bring clean and safe drinking water to all of those people who currently have no drinking water. And they are over a billion people! Join now. The more we are, the longer the pipe will become and the greater the chance for everybody to clean drinking water will be.

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The Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) interviewed Jon Lane, executive director of the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) at the World Water Week 2008.
In this interview Jon Lane talks about the importance of separate sanitation facilities for girls at school.

More info: SIWI
Produced by: SIWI
Year: 2008
Language: English

Interviews with Dzifa Azumah (Ghana News Agency) and Vishwanath Shrikantaiah (New Media Journalist) at the SWITCH summit in Delft about communication within their specializations: environment and sanitation.

More info: http://switchwatersummit.wordpress.com
Produced by: UNESCO-IHE
Year: 2009
Language: English

Here Julian Walker-Palin, head of coporate policy for sustainability and ethics at Asda discusses the role of business and individuals on effecting change.

More info: http://www.planet-positive.org/Vision2020 
Produced by: Planet Positive
Year: 2009
Language: English

This project is an experiment on how to tell the story of the Kainji Dam using video footage of an interview with Hope Ogbeide from SWAPHEP and photographs that he has taken on field visits. Whilst the result is not as engrossing as video footage of the Kainji Dam, it is useful in giving interested people an understanding of the issues and the terrein. Thanks to Hope Ogbeide for some photographs.

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Ancient water tunnels called \"Karez\" in Iraqi Kurdistan are rapidly drying up, a clear sign that the recent regional droughts are hitting the villages hard. Climate change seems to be unfolding at a wider scale and the future for groundwater supply seems bleak. Dale Lightfoot, an american geographer, travels the northern provinces of Kurdistan to document the situation. It urges UNESCO to set up a major initiative to safe the karez tunnels of Kurdistan.

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The eastern part of England is partly reclaimed from the sea, centuries ago. The marshlands now are a valuable agricultural area. Of course, maintenance is needed to keep the water where it belongs and at the same time making it work. This video explains the 'how' of it by the Water Management Alliance, showing pumps, dedicated machines and ways of working with water.

More info: Water Management Alliance
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Karen C students share their thoughts on the importance of water in their lives. Produced by Ernest Waititu. This project is part of the Pulitzer Center's Global Gateway on Water educational outreach project.

More info: Water Wars
Produced by: Ernest Waititu
Year: 2008
Language: English

The young entrepreneurs at Ragen Elementary in Kenya discovered that they could purify the entire school's drinking water for only $16/year. To pay for it, they started a garden to sell vegetables to the local community.

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Produced by: Global Water Challenge (GWC)
Year:
Language: English

A tale of development, an account of transformation. This is the story of the journey of a tribal village, from darkness towards the light. Distress migration, indebtedness to money-lenders, ill health and illiteracy was a way of life. The scenario changed with a self-help effort facilitated by WOTR.
Caring for the land that they once exploited suddenly brings in the returns. The well water level rises, land becomes more productive, horticulture is introduced and there is a reason to s...

Water availability and water quality are of vital importance for future development. This video shows 'the Kitui sand dams' project in Kenya, where with strong community participation, adaptation to climate change can be successful and can even provide an increase to regional economic growth.

More info: CPWC
Produced by: Arena Films
Year: 2006
Language: English

Minister of development cooperation (The Netherlands), Bert Koenders, and 3FM Radio DJ, Eric Corton, visiting Burkina Faso and the work of the Red Cross.
Currently 3FM is hosting the Serious Request radio programme, which aims at mobilising money for the fight against Malaria.
Other participating radio stations include ’Studio Brussel’ from Belgium, in Switzerland‚ L'eau en partage : Deuxieme partie

Documentaire sur la problematique de l'eau au Benin...

The broadcast report "Water is life" shows innovative water and sanitation projects in Kenya, funded with the aid of a 500 million euro Water Facility spanning more than 40 countries across the ACP region. Of key importance to the EU-ACP funding package is the high level of community involvement. Implementing a project is just the first stage in a long process of which the most important objective is sustaining a population long after the implementation has been completed.

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This video shows the Campaign Against Malaria of the Canadian Red Cross. This campaign is based on a simple strategy: disease prevention. The Red Cross distributes long-lasting insecticide-treated mosquito nets.

More info: Canadian Red Cross
Produced by: Canadian Red Cross
Year:
Language: French also available in...

This one minute video shows the impact of mosquito nets on the prevention of Malaria. It is the most proven and cost-effective way to save lives is with a $7 bed-net. Insecticide-treated nets provide a protective barrier around families, especially at night when malaria-carrying mosquitoes strike. A single net can protect one or more children for up to five years.

More info: www.lamalariapique.net 

Un projet financé par ECHO le service humanitaire de lunion Européenne a 85% et Oxfam Grande Bretagne à 15 %, visant à réduire le risque de malnutrition aiguë chez les enfants de moins de cinq ans dans deux zones pilotes du Mali et de Mauritanie.

More info: Oxfam GB
Produced by: Guillaume Pincemin
Year:
Language: French

Scientists warn that California's famous crystal-clear lake is seriously threatened by global warming.

More info: Assignment Earth
Produced by: Assignment Earth
Year:
Language: English

This video tells the story of groundwater: its occurrence (hydrogeology) exploration (geophysical survey and drilling) and deterioration following from contamination. The importance of protecting the most important mineral resource from polluting sources such as agriculture, industry and domestic waste is explained and underlined. With clear graphics and nice imagery this video gives a good insight into the world of groundwater and its pivotal role for society. 

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Este vídeo narra la historia de las aguas subterráneas: su aparición (hidrogeología) la exploración (geofísicos y de perforación) y el deterioro siguientes de la contaminación. La importancia de la protección de los recursos minerales más importantes de las fuentes contaminantes, como la agricultura, la industria y los desechos domésticos se explica y subrayado. Con unos gráficos claros y las imágenes de Niza este vídeo da una buena visión en el mundo de las aguas subterráneas y su papel fund...

Full title: Le captage d'eau l'experience des impluviums a sibirila (Mali)

More info: Rain foundation
Produced by: Helvetas - Mali
Year: 2008
Language: French

Dans ce troisième épisode de 'Le dire tout eau', on s'intéresse à notre

Un douar au Tadla.
Menée par un groupe de jeunes, une communcauté d'irrigants réussit à créer sa propre coopérative laitière. Avec les succès du lait, la coopèrative investit dans la domaine cosial; santé, éducation, aue potable, pistes urales... sont autant de sujets qui lient la coopérative à la communauté.

More info: www.eau-sirma.net
Produced by: Ena Cnerv Cirad
Year: 2009 
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This short video tries to describe WaterAid Ethiopia works in one of its project areas, the Benishangul Gumuz Regional State. WaterAid Ethiopia takes proactive approach to improving the success of water and sanitation projects by a strong focus on learning lessons across multiple implementations. It tries to introduce technologies which are appropriate to the local context, easy to use, and maintained by the local community members.

More info: Les projets tests d'assainissement

More info: Centre Régional pout l'eau potable et l'assainissement à failble coût (CREPA)
Produced by: CREPA
Year:
Language: French

Le film explique l'importance des zones humides pour les êtres humains et les problèmes auxquels ces ressources si précieuses doivent faire face. La Convention de Ramsar nous aide à travailler ensemble pour gérer ces écosystèmes vitaux.

More info: www.ramsar.org
Produced by: Ramsar
Year: 2008
Language: French, also available in LIFE: Coastal Woodlands, film report spring 2005

This film report of the LIFE project Coastal Woodlands covers the period January 2005 - July 2005. Bo Thor, project leader, tells about the main events of this period. During this period a severe storm occured in Sweden and later in this period algae bloom occured in the Baltic sea.

More info: http://www.skogsstyrelsen.se
Produced by: Skogsstyrelsen
Year: 200...

Full title: Lake Mikri Prespa: Conservation of priority bird species in Lake Mikri Prespa, Greece. Lake Mikri Prespa is part of the Prespa National Park and of the transboundary Balkan Prespa Park set up in 2000 by Albania, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and Greece. The lake has been classified as a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention and has been designated as a special protection area under the EU Birds Directive. The region boasts the world's largest...

This fascinating film explores some of the social and financial benefits clean water and sanitation can bring to a community, by focusing on a village in Tanzania.

More info: www.wateraid.org
Produced by: Eye to Eye Television
Year:
Language: English

2008 Winner of The Shortie Awards.

This is the story of how the youth in Kibera slum (Nairobi, Kenya) confront daily challenges on sanitation and hygiene. The young Kibera residents, who filmed and edited the film, range in age from 9 to 19 years.

David Were and his fellow youth in Kibera slum confront sanitation and hygiene in the fight of \"Flying Toilet.\" David fears going out at night to relieve himself, because his father lost an eye following a nightly attack dur...

It takes large volumes of water to grow rice, but old habits have to change in a world running short of water. Rice farmers in Thailand are adopting a new method, System of Rice Intensification (SRI), to achieve more crops with less seeds and water, but without damaging the environment. It involves using mulch, inter-cropping and transplanting rice earlier than usual.

More info: Challenge Program on Water and...

Droughts, floods and environmental degradation have caused much concern among the ten African countries that share the River Nile. As they search for ways to minimise damage, researchers are focusing on people, livestock and the land near the source of this mighty river. Everybody needs to manage more with less water, and old habits have to change.

More info: CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food  
Produced by: TVA Asia...

World Bank task manager Juergen Vogele introduces the experiences in the initiation and implementation of the Loess Plateau project and shares his thoughts on how and why this project has succeeded. The experience shows the crucial importance of listening to the indigenous people, understanding the local best practices, designing the projects that provides the incentives for farmers to give up unsustainable practices, and implement the projects so that can be scaled up to non-project areas. T...

Lord Nicholas Stern, academic, former Chief Economist of the World Bank, Professor and Chair of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at London School of Economics and author of the Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Change, discusses powering his home with renewable energy, finishing his insulation, using electric cars and carbon neutral transport, eating less red meat and deforestation.

More info: Louisiana wetlands

With its coastal lowlands sinking, Louisiana pushes expensive plans to re-make the Mississippi River and allow the restoration of a self-sustaining delta.

More info: Assignment Earth
Produced by: Assignment Earth
Year:
Language: English

Full title: Low-cost rural water supply with hand drilled borehole and rope pump in Tanzania.

This video shows the installation of a rope pump, including preparation of the filter screen, installation of a gravel pack and the installation of the pump pipe. After the installation the cement is cured for one week before the pump is used. Total costs of this pump were 500 USD.

More info: www.connectinterna...

Des jeunes restent ou reviennent à l'agriculture. Les combats des jeunes et la difficile relève illustrent les contraintes et opportunités d'aujourd'hui en agriculture irriguée au Maroc.

More info: www.eau-sirma.net
Produced by: Ena Cnerv
Year: 2009
Language: Arabic with French voice over

The De Hoop dam is being constructed at a cost of R 5 billion in one of the poorest areas of rural South Africa. The Department of Water Affairs and Forestry hopes to stimulate investment of R 15 billion and create opportunities for some 90 000 jobs.
This project aims to provide the necessary water resource infrastructure in the form of a storage dam, and a 300 km network of water pipelines, reservoirs and pump stations. CSIR scientists are investigating how the dam can promote develop...

This one minute video shows the impact of mosquito nets on the prevention of Malaria. It is the most proven and cost-effective way to save lives is with a $7 bed-net. Insecticide-treated nets provide a protective barrier around families, especially at night when malaria-carrying mosquitoes strike. A single net can protect one or more children for up to five years.

More info: www.malariabites.net
Produce...

A film about water management in Mali. The government of Mali has set new directions for its water policy by adopting an integrated water resources management approach. The need to address the challenge of climate change is evident as Mali already experienced its consequences.

More info: www.gwpforum.org
Produced by: Global Water Partnership, GWP Mali, Swiss Agency of Development and Cooperation
Year: 2009
Lang...

Una humilde campesina y su nieto van a recoger agua. Después de horas de caminar llegan a lo que ahora es un manantial entubado. El niño percible el dolor y la nostalgia de su abuela al ver la sucia y pequeña llave de agua. En un inesperado y poético final, decide revivir al manantial.

A humble country woman and her grandson walk together to get water. After a few hours of journey, they reach to what now is a piped spring. The boy feels his grandmother's pain and nostalgia whe...

Reducing the impact of storms and supporting local communities in tropical coastal regfions by replanting mangrove forests.

More info: Wetlands International 
Produced by: XO-media
Year: 2008
Language: English

Vangaindrano village has been identified having a big potential for the use of low cost manual drilling after a mapping study realized by PRACTICA for USAID.
ESF has identified with CRAID the water needs of the beneficiaries with the agreement of local authorities.
CRAID will be trained in manual well drilling method and on the installation of low cost hand pump (canzee), in order to create local capacities. After the training CRAID will be able to construct appropriate and low ...

WaterAid works in 17 countries providing water, sanitation and hygiene education to some of the world's poorest people. This short film explores WaterAid's life-changing work in Malawi.

More info: WaterAid - www.wateraid.org
Produced by: WaterAid
Year:
Language: English

The toxic metal, mercury, occurs naturally in the earth's crust, but human activities contribute significantly to mercury pollution. To understand the dynamics of mercury in the South African environment, the CSIR - with partners such as the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, Sasol and Eksom - has embarked on a series of mercury-related research projects. The project aims to assess the extent of mercury pollution, and the degree to which mercury may be a problem in the country. ...

Girls in Burkina Faso lose one to two years of lessons during their school life because of the time they spend collecting water each day. Improvements in the rural water supply are designed to bring about change and provide better development opportunities, especially for women and children.

More info: www.bmz.de
Produced by: BMZ in cooperation with KfW, GTZ, DED, InWEnt
Year: 2008
Language: German, a...

This film investigates the beauty and the mysteries of one of the longest rivers of the world, the Mekong. As we descends its close to 5 000 kilometers, this river offers us incredible discovered but above all gives us the opportunity to meet some of the 320 million inhabitants who live in its baisin since millennia. If the languages and traditions divide them all, but this river remains the economic, social and spiritual link of what we can call the People of the Mekong. Charming characte...

Full title: Michael Pritchard's water filter turns filthy water drinkable
Too much of the world lacks access to clean drinking water. Engineer Michael Pritchard did something about it -- inventing the portable Lifesaver filter, which can make the most revolting water drinkable in seconds. An amazing demo from TEDGlobal 2009.
Using a non-chemical nano-filtration hollow fiber membrane with 15 nanometer pores (it is designed to block viruses), the...

Myths have surrounded the occurrence of natural disaster phenomena since the beginnings of civilization. This video presents some popular beliefs in the context of some of the most devastating disasters to occur in the Region of the Americas. It emphasizes the importance of dispelling certain myths through education and understanding of actual events.

More info: Pan American Health Organization
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Four tiny tribal hamlets each struggling to survive independently. WOTR sees that they all belong to one watershed. Is there a way of bringing them together? Would they be prepared to come together?

More info: www.wotr.org
Produced by: WOTR, supported by Karl Kübel Stiftung für Kind und Familie and European Commission
Year:
Language: English subtitles

This film looks at improved access to water and poverty reduction in both rural and urban environments in Ethiopia. The film shows part of the Research inspired Policy and Practice Learning in Ethiopia (RIPPLE) research programme ?Money into Water, Water into Money?, which not only aims at providing access to clean water and better sanitation but also at reducing rural and urban poverty.

More info: RiPPLE 

A report on village life in rural Tanzania featuring Monica Mahdi, who is a member of a village water association. As one of 15 wives of a Masai Chief, Monica Mhadi?s life has always been better than other women in her village in rural Tanzania. Even so, she lost four of her seven children because of poor sanitary conditions. Luckily, such tragedies are no longer an inevitable part of Monica?s world. Access to clean water has made life safer for Monica and other Masai and Mangati women in Tan...

Dirección General de Aguas - Chile instala estación meteorológica para monitoreo satelital en Lago Cachet-2 en región de Aysén, aprox. 1500 km al sur de Santiago de Chile. El lago es aledaño al glaciar Colonia en Campo de Hielo Norte. Se contó con el apoyo del Ejército de Chile. El trabajo se realizó en mayo de 2009.

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Year: 2009
Language: Spanish
 

Funded by the EU, the Arab Women Organization – one of IUCN’s members and a partner in the Azraq Oasis Restoration Project - launched the “Monitoring CEDAW Implementation” for restoring the Azraq Oasis in partnership with the IUCN/ROWA with involvement by the local community in order to enhance water governance and improve women participation in water resources management. CEDAW stands for  Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination at Women.
...

Girls in Burkina Faso lose one to two years of lessons during their school life because of the time they spend collecting water each day. Improvements in the rural water supply are designed to bring about change and provide better development opportunities, especially for women and children.

More info: www.bmz.de 
Produced by: BMZ in cooperation with KfW, GTZ, DED, InWEnt
Year: 2008
Language: English, also ava...

Mount Kenya captures rainfall and brings water, life and income to the otherwise dry lowlands. Pressure on land and water resources increases rapidly, generating conflicts between water users along the rivers. The video shows cases of these conflicts, as well as solutions developed in research projects in the Mount Kenya.

More info: Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)
Produced by: Hanspeter Liniger (WOCAT ...

Les mini films d'animation de Mountain-riders avec les hilarants Billy et Willy, exemple et contre-exemple de l'attitude à adopter pour préserver l'eau en montagne et au quotidien!

Mountain-riders animated mini movies with the hilarious characters Billy and Willy. They show examples and counter-examples on how to conserve water in the mountains and in their daily life!

More info: www.mountain-rider...

Cloud forests are very rare ecosystems, only 2% of the world's tropical forests are cloud forests. This film shows how scientists try to unravel the secrets of these ecosystems and how forest protection works in Costa Rica.

More info: Halsundbeinbruch film
Produced by: Sampurno Bruijnzeel
Year: 2004
Language: English

Muzafargarh district in Punjab (Pakistan) suffered badly after the embankments protecting Taunsa barrage had to be broken - to save this structure and flood water poured in to the area, forcing the breaking of more embankments within the area. Moreover wedged in between two rivers it received flood water not only from Indus but also from Chenab. As a result two weeks after the floods water is still pouring into this lowlying area.

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The village of Zin Pyun Gon, nestled in Myanmar's Ayeyarwaddy Delta, appears idyllic in at first glance. But the water that gives this community life also presents a serious threat to its health. While the water looks clean and tastes good, it actually contains arsenic, which over time can cause of range of serious health ailments. Fortunately, this situation is being addressed in Myanmar by UNICEF and its health and water counterparts.

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Myths have surrounded the occurrence of natural disaster phenomena since the beginnings of civilization. This video presents some popular beliefs in the context of some of the most devastating disasters to occur in the Region of the Americas. It emphasizes the importance of dispelling certain myths through education and understanding of actual events.

More info: Pan American Health Organization
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The Neretva river got its name from Celts, they called the river "Nera Etwa" which means the "Flowing Divinity", the "Divine River".
Today, Bosnian leaders and politicians are not satisfied with usage of the Neretva waters with 2/3 of the Neretva under an absolutely excessive utilization, so they call for more "sustainable" requisition of the Neretva head waters, the last untouched and unspoiled section of the Neretva. 

More info: Neretva River, Water Divinity In Peril

The Neretva river got its name from Celts, they called the river "Nera Etwa" which means the "Flowing Divinity", the "Divine River" - they were right about this green beauty,  jewel of Bosnia-Herzegovina , Europe and world! Today Bosnian leaders and politicians are not satisfied with usage of the Neretva waters with 2/3 of the Neretva under an absolutely excessive utilization, so they call for more "sustainable" requisition of the Neretva head waters, the last untouched and unspoiled section...

In this interview with TheWaterChannel Erik Nissen-Peter explains four different water harvesting techniques in a river bed which should be considered before the actual development: hand dug wells, subsurface dams, weirs and sand dams.
Erik Nissen-Petersen tells about the advantages of subsurface dams compared to sand dams.

More information: www.waterforaridland.com 
Produced by: TheWaterChannel

In the Azawak, a vast plain on the edge of the Sahara, a little rain falls during two months of the year. For the rest of the year, there is no water. Imagine scooping water from a muddy marsh. Then imagine that source of water drying up. The children of the Azawak spend their time searching for water. Amman Imman means Water is Life. For the people of the Azawak, their hope rests on water. Humanitarian organization Amman Imman: Water is Life is responding to the request of the people of the ...

This video documents the vivid transformation in the lives of the villagers of Hivre in Maharashtra brought about due to the implementation of watershed activities initiated by the Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR). The video explains the process of watershed development through two phases of capacity building and excution as well as related progress through the empowerement of women, the setting up of self help groups and healthcare.

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This video shows options for health risk reduction in wastewater irrigated urban agriculture in Ghana.

More info: www.iwmi.cgiar.org
Produced by: International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Year: 2008
Language: English

Original Title: Opur, ou la conqûete de la rosée.  Dew is a source of pure water, modest, generally, but which can prove to be an essential contribution in the places where water is missing mostly: deserts. Many hot countries suffer from the absence of water. However, its amount in the atmosphere can be considerable. The OPUR association was founded in 1999 to explore and develop inexpensive and practical alternative water sources and to unite both individuals and organizations interested in ...

Unique water training school for purification, hand pump repair, sanitation, hygiene, etc.

More info: www.edgeoutreach.com
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Language: English

This video shows the story of the village Pangra in Beed and Sampat Misal, where inhabitants travel at least 25 kilometres to avail of any medical, educational or civic facility.
In 2001 the neighbouring village started a water shed program. After observing the positive impacts of this program on the other village, Pangra villagers decided to adopt a watershed program as well. This video shows the process of the water shed program. Gramsabha (common village meeting) plays an important ro...

Explorando las aguas de Guanajuato, es una serie que busca comprender y difundir la situación de los usuarios, así mismo promueve mejores hábitos que ayuden a contruis un mejor futuro con agua.

More info: www.guanajuato.gob.mx/ceag
Produced by: Gobierno del estado, comisión estatal del agua
Year:
Language: Spanish

This documentary is about the impacts of lift irrigation schemes (LIS) on the poor farmers in the drought prone regions. The LIS enables the available water source in reaching the higher areas, is an oasis for the farmers. Thanks to Mr. G. Chandra Shekar Reddy, MD, APSIDC for providing an opportunity to study and also thanks to SIRD, an NGO in Mahabubnagar District. Experiences are from three LISs in parts of Mahabubnagar District, Andhra Pradesh, India.

More info: Partnership in Practice

This video addresses the risks on floods and the infrastructure built to prevent this. Community participation is necessary to establish a sustainable and efficient water management system. The video describes how IPSWAM contributed to this. IPSWAM (Integrated Planning for Sustainable Water Management) is a project of the Ministry of Water Resources Bangladesh Water Development Board and supported by Bangladesh & Royal Netherlands Government.

More info: Peatlands and Palm Oil Plantation

In Southeast Asia, many peatlands are burned, drained and converted into palm oil plantations. This causes enormous CO2 emissions, although palm oil pretends to be a 'biofuel', which is supposed to reduce CO2 emissions. Check www.ckpp.org for more videos related to the topics of the project, such as Illegal logging, Hydrological Restoration, Fire fighting and Healthcare.

More info: Central Kalimantan Peatlands Project www.ckpp.org
Produced by: CK...

This film investigates the destruction of Ethiopia's once beautiful Lake Koka and the tragic effects this is now reaping on the local population, and the overall high environmental cost of economic growth attempts. Lake Koka lies a few hundred miles south of Addis Abeba and used to be idyllic. Today however, it is so heavily polluted that the water glows a toxic green, most of the fish are dead and the thousands of people who have no choice but to drink the lake's water each day are left to d...

This film investigates the destruction of Ethiopia's once beautiful Lake Koka and the tragic effects this is now reaping on the local population, and the overall high environmental cost of economic growth attempts. Lake Koka lies a few hundred miles south of Addis Abeba and used to be idyllic. Today however, it is so heavily polluted that the water glows a toxic green, most of the fish are dead and the thousands of people who have no choice but to drink the lake's water each day are left to d...

Poor water quality has large economic and quality of life costs, in terms of health impacts and foregone revenues. According to the Philippine government's monitoring data, just over 36 percent of the country's river systems are classified as sources of public water supply and that up to 58 percent of groundwater sampled is contaminated with coliform and needs treatment. Approximately 31 percent of illnesses monitored for a five-year period were also caused by water-borne sources, and many ar...

This film is about an SouthSouthNorth Adaptation project implemented in the semi-arid region of Brasil. The focus of the project is to improve agriculture through water and energy efficient irrigation systems. The video presents an overview of the project and its partners.

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Produced by: Luiz Gomez REDEH and SSN
Year:
Language: English

Girls in Burkina Faso lose one to two years of lessons during their school life because of the time they spend collecting water each day. Improvements in the rural water supply are designed to bring about change and provide better development opportunities, especially for women and children.

More info: www.bmz.de 
Produced by: BMZ in cooperation with KfW, GTZ, DED, InWEnt
Year: 2008
Language: French, also avai...

Dans ce deuxième épisode de « Le dire tout eau », découvrez le pouvoir dépolluant des plantes aquatiques et la féminisation des poissons d'eau douce touchés par des micropolluants. Le magazine vidéo web d'Eauzone.TV vous dit tout sur l'eau, ou comment la préserver et mieux la consommer!

More info: Eauzone.tv
Produced by: Alternative Channel
Year: 2010
Language: French

Pervious pavement / porous pavement consists of a permeable surface course underlain by a uniformly-graded stone bed. Stormwater drains through the surface, is temporarily held in the voids of the stone bed, and then slowly drains into the underlying, uncompacted soil mantle. The Morris Arboretum, in Philadelphia, PA, has successfully integrated this BMP into its parking areas to control rainwater runoff and help improve water quality in the local creek.

More info: StormwaterPA

Des coopératives en périmètres irrigués.
A l'honneur deux initiatives à l'echelle locale. Une coopérative laitière et une agrumicole assurent l'essor de leurs douars. Des leaders crédibles, des résultats visibles... pour que les gens restent ici!

More info: www.eau-sirma.net
Produced by: Ena Cnerv Cirad
Year: 2009
Language: French, also available in 

This video shows the production of ceramic filters for drinking water supply in Yemen and the application of colloidal silver to provide bacterial free drinking water out of the filter. This filter is introduced by GTZ-IWRM in Yemen in 2008

More info: www.silverfilters.org
Produced by: GTZ-IWRM
Year:
Language: English

Full title: Professionalizing the Manual Drilling sector in Africa
This video describes the professionalization of manual water well drilling for rural water supply in Africa. Manual drilling provides another method to increase access to safe water for rural communities. These techniques provide countries with a low cost way to increase coverage in order to reach the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) for access to safe water.
UNICEF, Practica and Enterprise Works/VITA have deve...

This is the project movie of the winning team for the 'Knappe Waterhoofden 2009' contest.

AquaLibra: The solution for the future is the project of Anke Santema, Mathijs Mul and Marieke Droogsma. As the winning team, they will join the 'Stockholm Junior Water Prize' competition in August 2009.

More info: SIWI
Produced by:
Year: 2009
Language: English

This is the promotional video for the contest 'Knappe Waterhoofden' (in Dutch).

Please visit the website (in Dutch only) www.knappewaterhoofden.nl for more information on this contest.

The winners of this contest will join the Stockholm Junior Water Prize, held by the Stockholm International Water Institute.

More info: Protecting Coastal Communities

"The Dutch Say Yes We Do - In America, We Can, Too." Levees.org has created a video documentary using footage captured by an Amsterdam-based filmmaker while in The Netherlands this past May HJ Bosworth Jr and Sandy Rosenthal were part of US Senator Mary Landrieu's Second Congressional Delegation (CoDel) excursion to Holland. Unlike the first CoDel which studied peripheral barriers (floodgates), the goal of the Second CoDel was to see how the Dutch live with - and manage - water in urban setti...

This video provides comprehensive training material aimed at helping communities and health workers understand and combat cholera.

More info: WHO
Produced by: WHO
Year: 2000
Language: English

Gaurav Dwivedi of Manthan Adhyayan Kendra, a think tank on water issues in India talks about his book on PPP's in India - What it means for as a society? How do we engage all the stakeholders in analysing the impacts of these reforms? The book is available for download here: http://www.indiawaterportal.org/node/9614

More info: www.indiawater...

Rooftops provide a good surface to pick up and collect rainwater. You can check the quality too using a H2S strip test and treat the rainwater using SODIS. Depending on rainfall in your area a lot of good rainwater can be collected.

More info: rainwaterclub and www.biome-solutions.com
Produced by: Zenrainman
Year:...

Rooftop rainwater harvesting is picking up in rural Karnataka, India as people realise the advantages of a good, clean water source at the doorstep. Especially when there is no electricity to pump water from borewells, rainwater proves a boon. With a bit of care it can be made potable and used for drinking and cooking too.

More info: www.rainwaterclub.org 
Produced by: 
Year:
Language: English<...

In Nepal it is difficult to have access to safe drinking water due to water crisis. This video shows rainwater harvesting methods promoted by the BSP Rainwater Harvesting Capacity Centre in Nepal.

More info: Biogas Sector Partnership - Nepal (BSP-Nepal) 
Produced by: Forum for Sustainable Development Nepal (FSD-Nepal)
Year: 2007
Language: English

La récuperation des eaux pluviales en Tunisie.

More info: www.sapiensproductions.com and www.centre.rnrt.tn
produced by: Sapiens Productions
Year: 2008
Language: French

This is perhaps the simplest test to check for bacteria in water. Once the presence is established by the water in the bottle turning black. Using simple solar disinfection method SODIS can then treat it to potable levels. These 2 simple tools are potential life savers.

More info: Zenrainman
Produced by: Zenrainman
Year:

This film shows drinking water supply systems in various villages in India, Nalgonda district. Problems like scarcity and fluoride are presented. Social control, raising awareness and rules and regulations are suggested options to cope with these problems. Two NGOs explain how defluoridation filters help local communities with purifying their drinking water.

More info: Andhra Pradesh Rural Livelihood Progr...

Remote Sarainyan Village (India) is flanked by embankments designed to keep the waters of the Budhi Gandak River from flowing into the surrounding fields. During the recent monsoon, however, these embankments had an extremely negative effect. They stopped the flood water from draining back into the river - leaving it to stagnate in the fields and marooning the displaced residents.

More info: UNICEF - www.unicef.org  
P...

Full title: Recarga artificial en varias acequias de careo de la Alpujarra (Granada)

En estas secuencias multimedia se presentan instantes de la recarga artificial en varias acequias de careo de la Alpujarra granadina. Gran parte de estos dispositivos han sido restaurados por iniciativa del PN de Sierra Nevada a través del Grupo Tragsa, empleando las mismas técnicas y materiales usados desde el siglo XII. Especial atención requiere el tratamiento de la mampostería hidráulica tr...

Reportaje de Telemadrid sobre la la gestión de la recarga de acuíferos (MAR).
Este reportaje fue emitido en Telamadrid y relata aspectos relativos a gestión hídrica dentro de la CAM con especial atención a medidas alternativas, entre ellas la gestión de la recarga de acuíferos (MAR).

More info: Dina-MAR
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Recharge wells can pick storm water and send it to the aquifer. This can mitigate urban flooding, enhance ground water levels and make available well water for supplemental purpose. Depending on lithology conditions , ground water levels and recharge rates, these recharge wells need to be designed. In Bangalore a 3 feet diameter and 20 feet deep well works in most places and can cover 250 square metre of plot area including roof area well.

More info: Recharge well to infiltrate stormwater

Recharge wells called leaky wells in Australia , are a good device to pick up and infiltrate storm water from drains. They reduce flooding, increase groundwater level and are a good way to manage rainwater in cities. Here is one way of making a recharge well. In Bangalore it can recharge at the rate of 4000 litres an hour handling the highest intensity of rain that can occur safely.

More info: rainwaterclub...

Full title: Recycling Realities In African Cities - Towards Safe Wastewater Use In Agriculture In sub-saharan Africa, where sanitation infrastructure does not keep pace with city growth, the use of polluted water for urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) is a common reality. While UPA puts consumers at risk; it also plays an important role in food supply and job creation. The question is how to preserve the benifits while minimizing the risks? This short video clip gives voice to the people ...

This is a video on early relief operations in a remote northern part of Pakistan - Utror (in northern part of Kalam), cut off from the world, with very challenging logistics.

More info: www.serendip.tv
Produced by: Serendip, Huma and Dr. Farooq Beg
Year:
Language: Urdu and English

Part 3 of the movie illustrating successful dam resettlement where in the people's own voices they are better off after resettlement than they were before.

Watch part 1 here
Watch part 2 here

More info: En...

This video was specially produced to be demonstrated in the IUCN Congress in Barcelona in October 2008. It shed lights on the situation of the ecosystem in the Middle East region, with its water, protected areas, business & biodiversity in addition to poverty, equity, gender and marine. It particularly emphasized the threats of which the region suffers.

More info: www.iucn.org
Pro...

As we know that effective weed control could increase yields by more than 50%, it surely is worthwhile taking a closer look. This video explains how to control weeds most effectively.

More information: www.africaricecenter.org
Produced by: Africa Rice Center
Year:
Language: English

How does land preparation and water management affect crop establishment, weed management and rice yields? And why does a field need to be perfectly levelled to have optimal effect of fertilizers?
To know the answers to these and other questions, watch this video.

More information: www.africaricecenter.org
Produced by: Africa Rice Center
Year:
Language: English

In this video, you will learn how to prepare a seedbed, as establishing a good seedbed is needed to obtain strong seedlings and give your crop a good start. Let’s look at it step by step.

More information: www.africaricecenter.org
Produced by: Africa Rice Center
Year:
Language: English

Yields are much higher when rice is transplanted. Compared to broadcasting, yields are two or three times higher.

More information: www.africaricecenter.org
Produced by: Africa Rice Center
Year:
Language: English

A simple reed system can clean washing machine and bath water enough to grow rice. What better place to do than the roof which in tropical India receives a lot of sunlight. Nutrition for the rice comes from a Ecosan unit on the roof again, which provides the urine for fertilizer. Finally a solar box cooker cooks the rice for consumption.Food and water Cycle complete on the roof.The water for the washing machine and bath comes from harvested rain falling on the roof but a slightly different pa...

Women are the care providers, of all but their own self. The women empowerment program in 150 villages is about realizing their true potential. With Sampada Trust, they receive training in entrepreneurship to manage small scale businesses from selling bangles to dried fish, to preparing manure and selling it. It is the Self – Help groups that make the difference, in their confidence levels. As a collective group their outshine darkness all around them. It is like "The lamp is mine but t...

New technology for irrigation saves water from river Flint.

More info: Assignment Earth
Produced by: Assignment Earth
Year:
Language: English

As well as providing some beautiful scenery, the rivers that run through – and on the edge of – Britain’s towns and cities supply us with most of our freshwater, for drinking and washing, and take away our waste.
It can sometimes be hard to see the connection between the water that comes out of our taps and the water we see flowing along in streams and rivers.
But the fact is, the water you rely on at home will originally have been pumped from rivers (or underg...

The earth can be a wonderful filtration system, but some of the contaminated water that seeps into underground aquifers can't be cleaned up by mother nature. How can you help protect our drinking water?

More info: riverstooceans.ca
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Year:
Language: English

More info: www.waterforaridland.com
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Year:
Language: English

Harvesting rooftop rainwater can provide supplemental water for all purpose in an urban area. Here is one such example from the city of Bangalore India.

More info: www.rainwaterclub.org
Produced by: Zenrainman
Year:
Language: English

A short film on manual well drilling using the Rota sludge technique. PRACTICA can advice and guide local implementing organisations in well drilling, energy & pumps, low cost water filters and irrigation and sanitation related appropriate technologies.
PRACTICA has become a valued partner in large development projects that include the introduction and dissemination of appropriate technologies as manual well drilling and rope pumps. Within these projects, PRACTICA supports the technolog...

This twenty minute synopsis of the “Running Dry” documentary highlights some of the issues facing our world.  Watch it now - and then decide how you can best be of help to yourself, your family - your world.  Consider this your “Call To Action”.
Watch also The American Southwest: Are we running dry?

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Botanic Garden produced this 9-minute on-line video: Reduce Runoff: Slow It Down, Spread It Out, Soak It In, that highlights green techniques such as rain gardens, green roofs and rain barrels to help manage stormwater runoff. The film showcases green techniques that are being used in urban areas to reduce the effects of stormwater runoff on the quality of downstream receiving waters. The goal is to mimic the natural way water moves throug...

See how small communities are being served with safe water in a sustainable, long-term solution. Water is a basic human right, nearly 1 billion people do not enjoy. Small communities worldwide don't have access to improved water sources, relying on unsafe surface sources such as ponds, streams, and shallow wells for their water needs. Today, EPA compact water treatment plants are serving the needs of water supply for more than 100,000 people. People served by EPAs noticed a positive ch...

UNICEF, along with the European Community Humanitarian Aid Department, and other partners, is providing safe drinking water and proper latrines for children at relief camps and temporary schools and shelters around Sri Lanka. Because of the early focus on providing clean water, adequate sanitation, basic nutrition and routine medical care, not a single child in Sri Lanka has died as a result of disease or displacement from the tsunami.

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In March 2009 RAIN and EHRA organized a sand dam training in Ethiopia. The aim of the training was to explain the sand dam and rainwater harvesting systems and share previous experiences with sand dam projects. This video shows part of the training in Addis Abeba and images taken during the fieldtrip to the Borona region in southern Ethiopia.

More info: RAIN
Produced by: Africa Interactive on behalf of RAIN

This video shows the impact of sand dams in communities in semi-arid Africa. Sand dams can provide a permenant local clean water supply for one community when it is designed correctly and when it is owned by the community themselves. An explanation of building sand dams is given.

More info: Excellent!
Produced by: Excellent Development Limited
Year: 2006
Language: English

Obtaining drinking water is a great problem for many people living in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso. Many wells are polluted; public water sources are usually far awar, and mobile water sellers charge high prices. Setting up further public taps and water connections will give residents access to safe drinking water and thus lay the foundations for better health.

More info: www.bmz.de 
Produced by: BMZ in cooperation...

Restoring healthy flows of fresh water in dammed and polluted rivers can be monitored by tracking endangered fish with radio transmitters.

More info: Assignment Earth
Produced by: Assignment Earth
Year:
Language: English

This short clip, produced for the Sana'a Basin Water Management Project (SBWMP) & National Water Resource Authority - Sana'a Basin (NWRA-SB), shows the inefficient way of water use during irrigation. It shows how farmers think that flood irrigation helps them to get higher yields and improved crop quality. This clip shows the need of water saving for the future generations.

More info: IWRM group ...

The extinction rate of species in freshwater ecologies is estimated to be almost five times higher than those on land.
A project led by the South African National Biodiversity Institute and managed by the CSIR aims to identify a national network of freshwater conservation areas.
The research will focus on large river ecosystems as well as wetlands, estuaries and groundwater. When this research is completed, South Africa will have a national map of exact priorities for fresh wat...

This film examines how China succeeded in raising hundreds of millions of people out of poverty since reforming its economy in 1978 and how the lessons learned are helping the poor community throughout China. Experiences from three case studies on "The Southwest Poverty Reduction Project", "Growth and Transition in Wenzhou and Suzhou" and "The Loess Plateau project" were introduced. This film is a part of a series of documentaries for the Shanghai Global Learning Process on Scaling Up Poverty...

Improving access to water is central to global efforts at reducing poverty. The recent introduction of demand-based approaches to water supply development marks a major shift in policy. This implies new roles and responsibilities for all involved from government to beneficiary communities. The central challenge for interveners is understanding the nature of demand for water, including the role and importance of water access in different livelihood activities. An understanding of the cost of t...

Many human settlements are related to water. Their prosperous cultures were started in the picturesque old watertowns today. In quickly growing contemporary cities, lives are changing and slowness is vanishing. When the urban men and women look for some quiet moments and beautiful sceneries back in the old watertowns, their transient activities inevitably change the relaxed life style and visual landscape there...
“Siesta•Transience” is combined with two related short...

In December 2008, the low-lying Carterets Islands were badly damaged by king tides and violent storm surges. Nicholas Hakata, a local youth leader and community representative, explains that he and his family have been surviving on mainly fish and coconuts, and battling the swamp mosquitoes that have brought malaria. With the local government's food aid ship coming once or twice a year, the relocation plans are equally as slow. Hungry and unwell, the islanders have set up a relocation team a...

Sir Jonathan Porritt, environmentalist and writer, discusses here limitless energy from 90% renewable energy resources.

More info: http://www.planet-positive.org/Vision2020 
Produced by: Planet Positive
Year: 2009
Language: English

Sisters on the planet is a series of inspirational journeys of women who are fighting back against climate change.

More info: www.oxfam.org.nz
Produced by: Oxfam New Zealand
Year:
Language: English subtitles

Sisters on the planet is a series of inspirational journeys of women fighting against climate change.

More info: www.oxfam.org.nz
Produced by: Oxfam new Zealand
Year:
Language: English

The project "Coastal Woodlands" is demonstrating new and innovative ways to include the coastal woodlands in an Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) by the Baltic Sea. The project is also aiming at the development of recommendations for a strategy related forestry and nature protection issues in an ICZM by the Baltic Sea, within the frames of the Union´s environment policies.

More info: Smart roofs to harvest rain and grow food

In tropical India , where the roofs are flat RCC, it is important to design smart roofs. These roofs harvest rainwater, grow rice, reuse greywater, have an Ecosan toilet to recycle nutrients and use solar energy for cooking,water heating nd lighting. They foster bio-diversity and can make cities sustainable. Welcome to the smart roof city.

More info: www.rainwaterclub.org
Produced by: Zenrainmain
Year:

This video shows three methods of soil and water conservation: terracing land, building sand dams and planting trees.

More info: Excellent!
Produced by: Excellent Development Limited
Year: 2006
Language: English

A multi-disciplinary team consisting of the CSIR, the Relief of Suffering and Starvation and the Institute of Water and Sanitation Development in Zimbabwe are finalising three health impact studies aimed at providing unambiguous proof that the solar disinfection of drinking water is effective against waterborne disease.

More info: CSIR
Produced by: CSIR
Year: 2009
Language: English

Solving water conflicts about the scarce water resources in Southern Kenya.

More info: Wetlands International
Produced by: Gitte Spinder and Maurice Tromp
Year:
Language: English

More info: www.rainwaterclub.org
Produced by: Zenrainman
Year:
L...

Short video on spate irrigation in Ethiopia by Oromia Government and the Spate Irrigation Network.

More info: Spate Irrigation Network
Produced by: Oromia Government and Spate Irrigation Network
Year: 2008
Language: English

Media Coverage of demonstration voyage towing two connected fabric bags containing six megalitres of drinking water 100 kilometres through Puget Sound to Seattle USA.

More info: www.waterbag.com 
Produced by: Spragg bag
Year:
Language: English

Green Alliance is an organisation promoting sustainable development working to ensure the environment is at the heart of political decisions. Here, Stephen Hale, Director of Green Alliance discusses their new strategy Future Positive and moving from a climate of fear to a feeling of control.

More info: http://www.planet-positive.org/Vision2020 
Produced by: Planet Positive
Ye...

This short clip, produced for the Sana'a Basin Water Management Project (SBWMP) & National Water Resource Authority - Sana'a Basin (NWRA-SB), shows the Illegal Drilling Problem in the Sana'a basin.

More info: IWRM group on Facebook
Produced by: Public awareness team. Idea and scenario by Eng. Abdulkhaleq Alwan. Sound by Mr. Saleem Al-Ramah. Coordination by Eng. Saad Alhawsali. Mo...

More info: www.rainwaterclub.org
Produced by: Zenrainman
Year:
Language: English

Ecologists try to transform ditches into natural streams needed to bring healthy hardwood forests back to the Mississippi Delta in Arkansas.

More info: Assignment Earth
Produced by: Assignment Earth
Year:
Language: English

In conjunction with the Clinton Global Initiative, Students of the World and Water.org hosted seven students from UNC on project sites in India and Bangladesh. This video documents PepsiCo grant work being done in India and it's impact on local communities.

More info: water.org 
Produced by: Students of the World
Year: 2009
Language: English

This part of the Windows on Training Series gives explanation on sub surface dams.

More info: Andhra Pradesh Rural Livelihood Programmes (APRLP)
Produced by: APRLP
Year:
Language: English

More info: www.rainwaterclub.org
Produced by: Zenrainman
Year:
Language: English

More info: Andhra Pradesh Rural Livelihood Programmes (APRLP)
Produced by: APRLP
Year:
Language: English

Social engineering and livelihoods promotion are the most important components for enabling farmers for Sustainable Management of Lift Irrigation Schemes in Andhra Pradesh, India. This video highlights APSIDC's initiatives to build the capacity of all stakeholders, viz., the Farmers and Farmers? Associations, Community Social Engineers and Support Organisations.

More info: Andhra Pradesh State Irrigation Development Corpor...

Interview with Kwaku Addo Sakyi-Addo from Aqua Vitens Rand by Dzifa Azumah from Ghana News Agency at the SWITCH summit in Delft. 

More info: http://switchwatersummit.wordpress.com
by: UNESCO-IHE
Year: 2009
Language: English

Second series of interviews taken at the 2009 UNESCO/SWITCH Summit. Interview Joep Verhagen (IRC)

More info: http://switchwatersummit.wordpress.com
Produced by: Willem Tijssen http://watersite.ning.com
Year: 2009
Language: English

Second series of interviews taken at the 2009 UNESCO/SWITCH Summit. Interview Joep Verhagen (IRC)

More info: http://switchwatersummit.wordpress.com
Produced by: Willem Tijssen http://watersite.ning.com
Year: 2009
Language: English

March 19, 2008 - Rivers in Arkansas are exceeding their flood levels following extreme rainfall. While surveying rising waters in Izard County near the city of Calico Rock, Steve Franks with the U.S. Geological Survey in Little Rock captures this incredible cell phone video of a roofed structure floating down the White River and slamming into the bridge on Arkansas State Highway 5. Courtesy USGS Arkansas Water Science Center.

More info:

More info: ciifad.cornell.edu/SRI/index.html
Produced by: CEDAC
Year:
Language: Khmer

A documentary showing the struggle for water in the Tungabhadra Left Bank Canal irrigation system, Karnataka India.

More info: WUR
Produced by: Agrapen and Wageningen University
Year: 2000
Language: English

Taking Lessons for Flood Recovery from the Post 2005 Earthquake Operations. Interview with Usman Qazi who was involved in the coordination of the largely successful recovery operation after the 2005 earth quake in Pakistan - what lessons to use and what to do better.

More info: www.serendip.tv and www.thewaterchannel.tv
Produced by: TheWaterChannel an...

Taking the Credit goes from the trading floors of London's financial district to the Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique to look examine the contentious issue of carbon trading and it's effectiveness in combating global climate change.

More info: www.envirotrade.co.uk
Produced by: Rockhopper TV for BBC World
Year:
Language: English, also available in Taking the credit (Portuguese version)

Taking the Credit goes from the trading floors of London's financial district to the Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique to look examine the contentious issue of carbon trading and it's effectiveness in combating global climate change.

More info: www.envirotrade.co.uk 
Produced by: Rockhopper TV for BBC World
Year:
Language: Portuguese, also available in Tales of Water

'Tales of Water' is a multimedia project using photographs, film, television, print materials, and the internet to enable children from around the world to share their experiences with water in daily living. As part of an effort to secure clean water for future generations, children are expected to take active roles in this public awareness initiative. This video shows tales of water from Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand.

More info:

Niger, West Africa Amman Imman's vision - that bringing water to the Azawak would encourage other development interventions - is happening! New staff member Julie Snorek captured this footage of International Relief and Development's recent progress in Tangarwashane.

More info: www.ammanimman.org 
Produced by: Amman Imman
Year: 2009
Language: French with English subtitles

Short movie. A last drop, a last memory lost in the eyes of a girl. Selected for the spot showing at the fourth World Water Forum in Mexico.

More info: World Water Forum
Produced by: Visiones Crios - Omar Flores Sarabia
Year: 2007
Language: n/a

This video shows a community terracing their land 
to prevent ersion and runoff. It shows the large impact of terracing on food production. 

More info: Excellent!
Produced by: Excellent Development Limited
Year: 2006
Language: English

Full title: The AFRIDEV handpump: Installed for Community Management

This is a training video for handpump technicians. Community involvement is discussed; before the technical implementation takes place, issues need to be resolved and everyone should agree on the proposal.
The technical process of the installation of the hand pump is described in detail with images from the field accompanied with schematic illustrations.

More info:
Produced by: Media Prod...

“As in the rest of the world, significant water problems exist in the Southwestern states because of severe drought, urban development, agricultural uses and population growth. The overwhelming need to solve these issues in the United States and the world is crucial through education and planning. The severity of the American water crisis cannot be underestimated.” Jane Seymour, Narrator, “Running Dry”

More info: The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting

Anupam Mishra: The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting

To promote smart water management, Anupam Mishra works to preserve rural India’s traditional rainwater harvesting techniques.

Anupam Mishra talks about the amazing feats of engineering built centuries ago by the people of India's Golden Desert to harvest water. These structures are still used today -- and are often superior to modern water megaprojects.

Anupam Mishra travels across water-challenged Indi...

This video describes the important role of water in different sectors (agriculture, industry, domestic use, recreation) throughout the centuries starting with the Nile and the early settlements around it. The video gives an overview of the Arabic region and its climatic areas before it explains about the water resources, aquifers and the hydrogeological situation of the region. The video conludes with activities carried out by the Arab Water Council. It promotes better understanding and manag...

This film documents adaptation to climate change through community management of traditional water harvesting structures in the Thar Desert, which is the most densely populated desert in the world. This drought-prone region is located in the state of Rajasthan, Western India. The video is produced by Community Video Unit in Jal Bhagirathi Foundation, in association with Video Volunteers, supported by Irish Aid. To contact Jal Bhagirathi Foundation, please contact us at The Future on International Water Policy

Interview/discussion with Ahmed Aboutaleb (Mayor of Rotterdam), Frank Heemskerk (Minister of Foreign Trade) and Richard Roper (Director of Planning, New York Port Authority)on the H2 09 forum in New York (September 2009).

More info: NWP
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Language: English

Drip irrigation has become popular too in Senegal, where an Israeli NGO is teaching farmers the simple technique that gives them control over their crops and does not leave them entirely at the mercy of the climate.

More info: IRIN
Produced by: IRIN and UNEP
Year:
Language: English

For millennia the people of southern Nepal have grown rice - in a country where the grain is a symbol of worship, other crops are considered unworthy. But monsoon rains, which rice cultivation so desperately depends on, have become increasingly erratic, leading farmers to think, and in some cases implement, the unthinkable - bananas!

More info: IRIN 
Produced by: IRIN and UNEP
Year...

Climate change is coming, according to climate scientists. Among its effects will be the impact on water resources... the things we care most about: water supply, water quality and the risk of disasters - floods and droughts.

More info: CPWC
Produced by: Swynk
Year: 2003
Language: English

South Africa. A documentary in which people from 7 countries (China, India, Palestina, Peru, Uganda, South Africa and Sweden) tell about their urgent need for appropriate sanitation in their neighbourhoods and their experiences in the use of ecological sanitation.

More info: www.thehumanexcretaindex.com
Produced by: WASTE
Year:...

Uganda. A documentary in which people from 7 countries (China, India, Palestina, Peru, Uganda, South Africa and Sweden) tell about their urgent need for appropriate sanitation in their neighbourhoods and their experiences in the use of ecological sanitation.

More info: www.thehumanexcretaindex.com
Produced by: WASTE
Year: 2005<...

Full title: The Kamburu Story: A community-led response to climate change

This video shows the area in Kenya where tea is a cash crop and where it dominates the landscape. Crops depleted and market prices fluctuate which makes the community very vulnerable.
50 years ago the indigenous crops were replaced by the tea plantations. As the households grow less food for their oww use, farmers completely rely on the cash they make from tea. Food security has become a perennial...

"The Katrina Myth; the Truth about a thoroughly unnatural disaster." Few people understand what really happened in New Orleans or what caused it. Fewer still realize that they too may be living under a similar or an even greater threat. This video exposes the key myths and misunderstandings about the New Orleans flood

More info: www.areweatrisk.org
Produced by: The Niger, a Lifeline

A Wetlands International and Ramsar Secretariat documentary on the consequences of large scale dam construction on biodiversity, hydrological regimes, livelihoods and traditional cultures set in the Inner Niger Delta, Mali.

More info: Wetlands-PREM (Poverty Reduction and Environmental Management)
Produced by: Pieter van Beukering and Kim van der Leeuw
Year: 2006
Language: English

Africa's Nile Basin is home to 180 million people. The population is growing fast, increasing the pressure on existing water resources. How can development be made more sustainable in the Nile Basin as the demand for water increases and how can all key stakeholders be included in this development process? This film looks at the development challenges facing both the peoples and governments in the region and examines the role of civil society and the media in Nile Basin development.

Mor...

The North Sea Canal is a Dutch ship canal from Amsterdam to the North Sea at IJmuiden, constructed between 1865 and 1876 to enable seafaring vessels to reach the port of Amsterdam. Every year over 100,000 ships pass the canal.

More info: www.rijkswaterstaat.nl 
Produced by: Alex Pitstra Media for the Dutch Ministry of transport, public works and water man...

The Pacific islands of Kiribati were among the last places to be colonized by humans. But now, because of rising sea levels, they may be among the first to be abandoned. Should Kiribati President Anote Tong surrender to climate change and evacuate? Can anything be done to help him buy more time?

More info: www.ifad.org
Produced by: IFAD
Year:
Language: English

This movie portrays the gold mining industry - including the water pollution it caused. Mali produces the most profitable gold in the world... at what cost? Millions of tons of gold-bearing ore are processed with cyanide - and supplies to the Occident millions of $s of benefits.

more info: http://www.dailymotion.com/camilledevitry
Produced by: Camille de Vitry
Year: 2007
Language: French with English...

The eels from lake Ohrid travelled for millenniums a mysterious journey from Lake Ohrid to the Saragasso Sea.
In the second half of the 20th century two dams were built on the Macedonian part of Drim river and four dams were built on the Albanian part.
This video shows the migration of the eels and the effects of the dams on this migration pattern. In the end, the video explains the process of 'water elevators' introduced by the National Forum for Animal Protection of Macedonia un...

Watershed Organisation Trust, (WOTR), was established in 1993 in Ahmednagr, Maharashtra. The aim of WOTR is to support village communities in eradicating their poverty by regenerating their environment through watershed development. To achieve this objective, WOTR, together with its partners, seeks to mobilize the creative potential of the watershed dwellers making this a people’s movement. WOTR also assists NGOs and other VSHGs interested in watershed development by extending them supp...

Full title: The right to be different. The struggle for water and identity in the Andes.
In the Licto area, Ecuador, the indigenous population fought for its water. Indian peasants headed the design, construction and organization of the irrigation system. After more than 20 years the water finally reached the community. 

More info: WUR IWE and This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Leishmaniasis is spread by the bites of many different species of sandfly. As this video shows, new products are now on the horizon that promise hope for the millions of people infected by the "sand killer".

More info: WHO
Produced by: WHO
Year: 1993
Language: English

This video shows Decentralized Wastewater Treatment Systems (DEWATS), developed by BORDA, rather than. Rather being merely a technology package DEWATS is a technical approach and the applications provide state-of-the-art-technology at affordable prices because all of the materials used for construction are locally available.

More info: BORDA 
Produced by: BORDA
Year: 2008
Language: English

Full title: The Seventh Video on Community Water Supply Management. This video presentation is an appeal to decision-makers to support rural communities in their efforts to manage their water supplies. The video states that governments cannot leave rural communities with the full responsibility for the management of their water supplies. Governments possess the power and the means to provide the support that communities need. The Seventh Video was made for decisions makers, but contains many ...

This docu-drama has been filmed in Naralewadi (Dist. Jalna, Maharashtra) where WOTR has implemented Renewable Energy based technologies such as biogas plants, solar LEDs, etc. The intervention was made to stop traditional fuel consumption in the village (fuel wood, kerosene lamp, cow dung, etc.) which has been adversely affecting the health of the inhabitants and their ecosystem. The impact and the transformation following this project have been brought out in this film through Rama’s p...

This animated short film details the travails of a barefoot consultant who promotes sanitation in villages in Pakistan. The barefoot consultant prospers in his work and develops a working sanitation market, he achieves such success that he is soon asked to travel to other villages to help them become Open Defecation Free.

The Water and Sanitation Program (WSP)

More info: www.wsp.org, The Ythan Project - sustainable land management

This video shows how a community approach helps reduce pollution in Ythan estuary in Scotland. The approach includes: use of a farm demonstration site to disseminate best practice, working with local farmers to increase applications to agri-environment schemes for nutrient budgeting, and the production of water management plans and to encourage the use of buffer strips. Finally, the project brought anglers, walkers, local residents and national agencies together, to select and manage restorat...

An easy and fun water conservation device is a Tippy Tap. Here students of Shrishti Art and Design School show how one is made.

More info:
Produced by:
Year:
Language: English

The Tippy tap is a wonderful and fun device to dispense small amounts (40 ml) of water to wash hands with soap and improve hygiene. In an Ecosan toilet this water dispenser can allow washing for a small dose of 80 ml for washers. Ravi Kumar of Mysore is a strong proponent of this device.

More info: rainwaterclub
Produced by: Zenrainman
Year:
Language: English

In the Peruvian Andes a peasant community has invested a lot of time, effort and money to complete and maintain their irrigation infrastructure. The Mallku feast is 30 days of work and devotion to the water spirits. It includes the cleaning of canals and reservoirs, water mayors, offerings and other rituals.

more info: www.wur.nl and 

This video is the result of a participatory video project facilitated by InsightShare on behalf of the Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) Programme, which is financed by the Global Environment Facility and implemented by UNDP, in partnership with the GEF Small Grants Programme and the United Nations Volunteers.
This version features the initiatives of vulnerable communities to mitigate the impacts of climate change on their environment, livelihoods and infrastructure. The film was devis...

Touched by water is a documentary on bathing traditions and water-rituals. Filmed in 13 countries, it conveys our complex relationship with water, its sensual pleasure and spiritual renewal. From ancient Roman baths to elite European spas, from Turkish hammams and the Ganges to a high-tech multimedia pool, the film explores the hidden meaning behind the simple and universal act of bathing.

More info: www.artesianfilms...

“GARBAGE DREAMS is a moving story of young men searching for ways to eke out a living for their families and facing tough choices as they try to do the right thing for the planet.” -Al Gore

More info: www.garbagedreams.com
Produced by: Mai Iskander
Year: 2009
Language: Arabic with English subtitles

 

A couple in India's eastern Bihar state recount their experiences while trying to survive the horrific floods of 2008.

More info: India Disaster Relief
Produced by: India Disaster Relief
Year: 2008
Language: English

This video shows the importance of trees. Trees absorb carbon dyoxide, fertilize soil, prevent erosion and help to absorbe rainwater.

More info: Excellent!
Produced by: Excellent Development Limited
Year: 2006
Language: English

Every year we spend billions of dollars on pumping and purifying water for the world's ever-expanding cities. But why bother building a desalination plant, when a forest will do the same job for a fraction of the price? Nature Inc goes to New York, Ecuador and Jordan to see how the authorities are waking up to the potential: how they are protecting ecosystems, saving a fortune and safeguarding two of our most precious assets: water and biodiversity.

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This animation (in German) gives a birds-eye of the groundwater as a paramount source of drinking water and explains how hydrogeological investigations are done. 

More info: BGR
Produced by: BGR
Year:
Language: German

An IFAD-supported project in the south of Jordan helps poor farmers better manage soil and water resources in one of the world's top ten water-poor countries.

More info: IFAD 
Produced by: IFAD
Year: 2008
Language: English

A UNDP clip: To address the problem of water pollution caused by the dumping of agricultural waste near the Tur River, sites to collect the waste and turn it into compost were created. This not only reduces the damage to plants and wildlife in the area, bit it provides local farmers with an environmentally friendly material with which to fertilize crops.

More info: UNDP
Produced by: UNDP
Year: 2006
Language:...

This video gives a clear explanation on the basics of groundwater, the importance of hydrogeology and groundwater mapping.

More info: www.acwadam.org  and www.indiawaterportal.org
Produced by: ACWADAM (Advanced Center for Water Resources Development and Management) under a grant of Arghyam Trust.
Year:
Language: English

Entre organisation de l'Etat et émergence des organisations locales... Des témoignages sur les succès et échecs de l'organisation professionnelle en périmètre irrigué (association d'usagers de l'eau agricole, coopérative laitière, organisation des producteurs de betterave à sucre...).

More info: www.eau-sirma.net
Produced by: Ena Cnerv
Year: 2009
Language: French

Interview with Steward, one of the participants of the 2009 Summit in Delft/The Netherlands. Interviewer:Joep Verhagen (IRC).

More info: http://switchwatersummit.wordpress.com
Produced by: Willem Tijssen http://watersite.ning.com
Year: 2009
Language: English

For people living in the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan, central Sudan, getting enough clean water has been a difficult task. Working with ECHO, the European Community Humanitarian Office, UNICEF has turned the situation around, building and rehabilitating the region's water plants to ensure more than 110,000 people can have access to safe drinking water.

More info: Unicef 
Produced by: Kun Li
...

Overview of important UNWATER projects.

More info: UNwater 
Produced by: UNWATER
Year: 2009
Language: English

Up the Yangtze is a dramatic feature documentary film on life inside modern China.
A luxury cruise boat motors up the Yangtze - navigating the mythic waterway known in China simply as "The River." The Yangtze is about to be transformed by the biggest hydroelectric dam in history.
The Three Gorges Dam - contested symbol of the Chinese economic miracle - provides the epic backdrop for this award-winning film about a family displaced by radical environmental and economic change.<...

Full title: URBANWATER, financially sustainable creative solutions with community support.
Managing water is a challenge throughout Australia - a challenge in which local Councils play many roles. Stormwater is being used creatively when water is scarce, wastewater is being used to recreate lost wetland habitat, and water conservation and treatment trains are improving local communities' quality of life.

More info: Vaiju Babulgaon a story of transformation

Integrated watershed development brings with it a drastic transformation in the face of a village. It does not only regenerate natural resources, but it also brings alive the watershed community who have come together, often for the first time, to work unitedly for own development.

In Vaiju Babulgaon, India despite three consecutive years of severe drought, the village still had sufficient water for drinking and for their animals. This is their story in their own words telling ...

to be uploaded soon. www.thewaterchannel.tv

This video shows how current development projects in Viet Nam are having to work with a peculiar contradiction: the countryside receiving too much water and the cities too little. In both circumstances, the poor - both rural and urban - experience the greatest hardships.

More info: Asian Development Bank
Produced by: The Information Office - ADB
Year: 1995
Language: English

In Jordan the challenge is to stop the entire Kingdom from turning to desert  a growing problem due to persistent drought and a population swollen by refugees from Middle East conflicts. Competition for water is so severe that even the legendary Dead Sea could disappear. TV presenter Rula Amin travels the length of Jordan and discovers that an IFAD-supported project working on the front lines of the crisis in the country?s driest southern governates provides innovative solutions as well as le...

Water is part of every production process. Whether we are biting into an apple or a hamburger, we are biting into something that has used water for its growth. This animation shows numerous facts on water.

More info: FAO 
Produced by: FAO water
Year:
Language: English

This film shows the sustainable experience of four communities  in establishing drinking water supply and simplified sewerage systems in the peri-urban area of Santiago de Cali, Colombia. It gives some evidences about the importance of developing this kind of projects involving communities with a gender approach.

More info: www.genderandwater.org and cina...

This video shows the testing of a hydraulic model of the Wadi Zabid Diversion Structure. It also shows how to improve the sediment exclusion performance of the existing headworks.

More info: University of Southampton
Produced by:
Year: 2003
Language: English

This video follows film producer and journalist Alison Bell meeting communities who put the Excellent theory into practice, working hard to transform their environment and water supplies by building sand dams, terracing land and planting trees.

More info: Excellent!
Produced by: Excellent Development Limited
Year: 2006
Language: English

As one of the videos in the walking on water series, this video documents on farming practices in Kenya. Through measures such as zero grazing of livestock, fertilizing the soil with nitrogen fixing trees sustainable food security is sought, summing up the work of Excellent Development in this field of work.

More info: Excellent!
Produced by: Excellent Development Limited
Year: 2006
Language: English<...

This video brings to light the situation of water and sanitation access in the Lake Victoria region, with experiences from Kisumu in Western Kenya and Jinja in Eastern Uganda.
A cooperation of Uganda Coalition for Sustainable Development, Kenya SusWatch Network, Tanzania Coalition for Sustainable Development.

More info: www.ugandacoalition.or.ug
Produced by:  Mystic Multi-Media, supported by Sida
Yea...

Water Management as Conflict Management by Geoff Dabelko. Geoff Dabelko is Director of the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center. In this presentation, Dabelko describes how water quality and quantity are declining in many parts of the world, posing acute problems for communities and governments. This crisis, along with high levels of interdependence on shared water resources, has led many members of the news media and some politicians to warn of imminent "wat...

This films shows how the Water and Nature Initiative translates change management in the field through community empowerment of life's most vital resource. This case study covers the Yobe River Basin in Nigeria.

More info: IUCN
Produced by: IUCN
Year: 2007
Language: English

This video shows the International Federation Global Water and Sanitation Initiative (GWSI) in action at the Zambia Red Cross Society "Rural Water Supply Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion Project"

More info: IFRC (International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies)
Produced by: The Water and Sanitation Unit, Health and Care Department
Year: 2007
Language: English

This is a corporate video of the Dutch Water Board "Groot Salland". It shows the tasks of the water board while presenting several themes: safe dikes, clean water, space for water, enjoying water.

More info: Water board Groot Salland
Produced by: Mediavizi
Year: 2009
Language: English (also available in Water crisis in the Azawak of West Africa

Development organization AMMAN IMMAN: WATER IS LIFE builds permanent sources of water in the Azawak of West Africa. The Azawak, home to half a million people, suffers from water scarcity. During the rainy season, which lasts only between one and three months, people drink from marshes. When these dry up, they have to travel long distances to find water.
People are dying, not just from drinking dirty water, but because they have no water to drink.
This film tells the story of the ...

AquaLibra, the Dutch project for the Stockholm Junior Water Prize 2009 attracted attention of lots of water professsionals. Marieke, student from Piter Jelles Gymnasium Leeuwarden explains.

More info: Knappe Waterhoofden, NWP
Produced by: Mathijs Mul, Marieke Droogsma, Anke Santema

This video touches upon a wide variety of topics related to water. It starts with a description of the history of our planet focussing on the important role of water. It describes the function of water within human bodies, but also explains the hydrological circle. Natural disasters like floods and droughts are briefly discussed before going into daily consumption in Lithuania and its distribution to household level. Treatment plants are discussed more in detail. After learning about pollutio...

Water For People helps people in developing countries improve their quality of life by supporting the development of locally sustainable drinking water resources, sanitation facilities and health and hygiene education programs.

More info: Water for People 
Produced by: Water for People
Year:
Language: English

The Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) is a multi-donor partnership of The World Bank. Their goal is to help the poor gain sustained access to improved water, sanitation and hygiene. This video shows issues (like non functionality)related to management of water and sanitation services in Peru.

More info: Water and Sanitation Program (WSP)
Produced by: WSP
Year: 2007
Language: English

How can dusty roads provide water? The answer is: harvest and store the rainwater when it finally comes. A rainfall of 30 millimeters falling on 1 kilometer of road produces about 100,000 litres of water.
Rainwater running off roads can be used for profitable ventures instead of letting it cause damage (runoff, gullies). This video gives some examples of harvesting rainwater from roads 

More info: www.waterf...

There are millions of rock outcrops in the world. This video shows how millions of people are using rock outcrops as their water source in some of the driest parts of Kenya. Different techniques are discussed in the video: rock pools, gorges between two rocks, rocks catchment dams, dam wall construction, earth dams and water tanks at rocks.

More info: www.waterforaridland.com
Produced by: ASAL consultants,...

A series of four video shorts (each approximately 2 minutes long) introducing Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in the Caribbean.

More info: IWCAM and This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Produced by: Buccoo Reef Trust
Year: 2007
Language: English

This video shows the Dutch perspective on water. It gives an overview on the history, the current approach and the international activities of the Dutch water sector.
This video was developed to show at presentations, on conferences, and on events. This video can be used by everyone.

More info: www.nwp.nl
Produced by: NWP
Year: 2010
Language: English and Chinese

This short awareness video is being displayed on national television in Yemen from Jan 25 till the end of March 2008. It enhances a programme promoting sustainable water usage in agriculture in the country of Yemen led by the GTZ in collaboration with the NWRA Awareness Departement (National Water Resources Authority of Yemen).

More info: GTZ and NWRA
Produced by:
Year: 2008
Language: Arabic w...

Only one in ten households in Burkina Faso has an appropriate latrine. Sources of drinking water are jeopardised by wastewater, and there is often not enough safe water for personal hygiene. These conditions often lead to the spread of disease. By building new latrines and communal toilets, setting up proper wastewater management systems and introducing ecological sanitation systems, hygienic conditions are improved for the benefit of the people and the environment.

More info: ...

The broadcast report "Water is life" shows innovative water and sanitation projects in Kenya, funded with the aid of a 500 million euro Water Facility spanning more than 40 countries across the ACP region. Of key importance to the EU-ACP funding package is the high level of community involvement. Implementing a project is just the first stage in a long process of which the most important objective is sustaining a population long after the implementation has been completed.

More info:

Geoff Dabelko is Director of the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center. In this presentation, Dabelko describes how water quality and quantity are declining in many parts of the world, posing acute problems for communities and governments. This crisis, along with high levels of interdependence on shared water resources, has led many members of the news media and some politicians to warn of imminent "water wars" between countries. Yet such wars between nations ...

Water scarcity and extreme temperatures pose a constant problem in Burkina Faso. Increasing population growth and rural to urban migration are leading to an increased need for water - for everyday needs, hygiene, farming and industry. The Ziga dam reservoir to the north-east of the capital Ouagadougou is one of the largest water supply projects in Burkina Faso. The film shows how the water reaches the city and provides information about German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Deve...

This video explains the activities of a public private partnership between DOW and the municipality of Terneuzen, The Netherlands.
It describes a project where municipal wastewater is treated by DOW and converted into process water instead of being discharged.

More info: DOW
Produced by: DOW
Year:
Language: English

The introduction of drip irrigation in large-scale irrigation schemes.
Water scarcity becomes acute, even inside irrigation schemes. Big pioneers install drip irrigation for oranges, horticulture, and fodder crops. Elsewhere, collective drip irrigation projects make this technique accessible for all.

More info: www.eau-sirma.net
Produced by: Ena Cnerv Cirad
Year: 2009
Language: Arabi...

The introduction of drip irrigation in large-scale irrigation schemes.
Water scarcity becomes acute, even inside irrigation schemes. Big pioneers install drip irrigation for oranges, horticulture, and fodder crops. Elsewhere, collective drip irrigation projects make this technique accessible for all.

More info: www.eau-sirma.net
Produced by: Ena Cnerv Cirad
Year: 2009
Language: English also availabl...

This short clip, produced for the Sana'a Basin Water Management Project (SBWMP) & National Water Resource Authority - Sana'a Basin (NWRA-SB), shows the incorrect way people use water at home. 

More Information:  IWRM group on Facebook 
Produced by: Public awareness team 
Year: 2006
Language: Arabic 

This Film, produced for the Sana'a Basin Water Management Project (SBWMP) & National Water Resource Authority - Sana'a Basin (NWRA-SB), shows water scarcity problems in the Sana'a basin. 

More info: IWRM group on Facebook
Produced by: Public awareness team
Year: 2010
Language: Arabic

Kijigari is a village in the Azawak of Niger, West Africa where a strong community has developed, in spite of the dire conditions caused by the lack of accessible water. In March, 2009, the Amman Imman team visited Kijigari to find out more about their water problems and assess whether or not the people want a borehole. In Kijigari they found a school, a community garden managed by women, and a sewing cooperative. But when the marsh runs dry, everyone abandons Kijigari to find water. What t...

UNICEF correspondent Jane O'Brien reports on the water treatment programme that is saving lives in Sudan's Darfur region.

More info: UNICEF Television
Produced by: Jane O'Brien
Year: 2007
Language: English

Dhaka is the fastest growing mega-city in Asia, with a population expected to reach 16 million by 2010. Over three million poor people live in squalid slums. Most are considered illegal squatters who have no access to city water or sanitation services. One solution gaining momentum is for poor communities to manage communal water points themselves, with assistance from a local NGO.

More info: ADB Water for All

To the eye, Hidden Paradise in the city of Bacolod, Philippines is starkly different from other neighborhoods nearby. It's a community of former squatters with tidy homes and clean, dry streets, a safe drinking water supply, and healthy children. Community leaders reveal how they transformed a slum into a hidden paradise.

More info: ADB Water for All
Produced by: Asian Development Bank
Year: 2003
L...

Long years of war and civil strife left Phnom Penh's water supply system in ruins. An estimated 70% of the city's water was lost through the decrepit distribution system and illegal connections. Led by its dynamic director, Ek Sonn Chan, the Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority has overcome these challenges to become one of Asia's most effective water utilities, as it advances towards the goal of providing water for all of the city's residents.

More information: Water voices - Upstream Downstream, Thailand

There is conflict over water use between upstream and downstream communities on the Ping River in northern Thailand. How can the competing demands for water be balanced? The Ping River Basin Committee brings all stakeholders together to seek common ground on sharing and protecting this vital river system.

More info: ADB Water for All
Produced by: Asian Development Bank
Year: 2003
Language: English<...

Development over the years has caused critical damage to the reef and degraded village water sources on the coral coast in the Fiji Islands. Now coastal communities, a local NGO and a tourist resort are working together to save the reef, and protect and manage water resources.

More info: ADB Water for All 
Producer: Asian Development Bank
Year: 2003
Language: English

During a three-year drought, women from the arid rural areas in Gujarat, India were spending at least three hours a day fetching water. Now the women are managing village water systems, and bring water closer to home.

More info: ADB Water for All 
Producer: Asian Development Bank
Year: 2003
Language: English

The remote island countries of Kiribati and Tonga in the Pacific rely mainly on fragile groundwater aquifers for fresh water. But groundwater sources just below the surface are highly vulnerable to pollution and salt water intrusion, as populations grow and concentrate in urban areas. Community organizers are working to change peoples' behavior to safeguard water supplies and the environment.

More info: ADB Water for...

In America's Southeast, growing population pressures are forcing states to compete for limited water supplies.

More info: Assignment Earth
Produced by: Assignment Earth
Year:
Language: English

Global climate change is making the struggle to access water worse, as we see in this report from the rugged region of southern Ethiopia, where drought is drying up wells, threatening an ancient way of life and fueling conflict. This video is a special from In Focus on world water day.

More info: Pulitzer Center
Produced by: Julia Marino and Alex Stonehill
Year: 2008
Language: English

'Water was a Dream' is a film describing IIED-America Latina's involvement in the improvement of water supply and sanitation services in three low-income urban settlements of Buenos Aires. It illustrates the challenges and strategies, and examines the key issues related to working in collaboration, using information as a driver for change, finance mechanisms, and scaling up.

More info: Water: Save local, Solve global

A documentary film project follows major impacts of the nine projects of the MEDA-Water programme. It shows practical examples in the field that prove how valuable regional cooperation in local water management is.

More info: MEDA-Water programme
Produced by: Sapiens Productions

This video shows how water scarcity in Niger is affecting the annual harvest, and how FAO is helping to channel water in from nearby villages to help irrigate the crops.

More info: www.fao.org/nr/water
Produced by: FAO
Year:
Language: English

A short animated tour of WaterAid's Google Earth awareness layer. WaterAid is working with Google Earth that allows people to view their project work on the ground.

More info: WaterAid
Produced by: WaterAid
Year: 2008
Language: English

The recent report of the Dutch Delta committee, guided by ex-minister Cees Veerman warned that even with all efforts possible to reduce C02-emissions, climate change is going to affect The Netherlands. The sea level will rise together with our main rivers. We have to prepare for this, it is gradually going to change our lives. Forecasting the exact impact of climate change is however a complex and difficult process. Despite the global climate change models, predicting climate change loc...

Water Purification in Ghana West Africa. Waters Edge Ministries use a unit that chlorinates water through electrolysis of a salt water brine. It runs off a car battery and can purify up to 55 gallons per minute.
Music by JJ Heller. 

More info: http://weministry.com
Published by:  Water Edge Ministries
Year: 2009
Language: n/a

This is a corporate video of the Dutch Water Board "Groot Salland". It shows the tasks of the water board while presenting several themes: safe dikes, clean water, space for water, enjoying water.

More info: Water board Groot Salland
Produced by: Mediavizi
Year: 2009
Language: Dutch (also available in Wazar - Story of a Dream Come True

Damalwadi and Wazar were two drought prone villages of Maharashtra, where availability of drinking water was a perennial problem. The women were the most affected by this. The requirements to implement WOTR's clean and safe drinking water project were doable yet challenging. This film tells the story of Wazar. Click here to watch the story of Damalwadi.

More info:

Take a tractor ride through the Jayyous countryside behind the Wall, where more than 70% of the village's land and all six of its groundwater wells have been confiscated.
See the illegal Israeli dump with industrial waste from the settlements located just above Azzoun's Well, from where the Jayyous residents now get their water.
Learn about the sewage crisis affecting 90% of Palestinians in the West Bank.
And meet the women of Jayyous, who together with LifeSource, are...

this instructional video describes step by step the construction of diversion weirs in Kenya.

More info: www.waterforaridland.com
Produced by: ASAL Consultants Ltd. 
Year: 2009
Language: English

Welcome to World Water Day by Shabhaz Khan, UNESCO. A special seminar linked to the theme of World Water Day 2010.
Additional (free)video + slideshare from this free Dundee UNESCO Centre event available at http://www.be2camp.com/page/world-water-day-workshop and then click on headings for Policy Context, the River Basins, and Water Quality and Flooding.

More info: www.be2camp.com
P...

This video explains the process of the construction of subsurface dams and wells.

More info: www.waterforaridland.com
Produced by: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Year:
Language: English

A film by Wetlands International that shows the importance of wise use of dambos (seasonally flooded grasslands) in Central Southern Africa, for the communities that live around them. In the last two decades, periodic droughts in Zambia and Malawi have rapidly increased, causing alarming seasonal food and fresh water shortages resulting in increased health and economic vulnerability during the dry seasons. For many people in Zambia and Malawi the only way to survive these periods is by using ...

This video tells a story about the importance of wetlands for human beings and issues that these most precious resources are facing. The Ramsar Convention helps people to work together and manage these vital ecosystems.

More info: www.ramsar.org
Produced by: Ramsar
Year: 2008
Language: English, also available in What is water use like in an African city?

Listen to four women from the cities Nairobi, Kampala and Jinja share experiences with their city's water supply.

More info: Hannah's Youtube Channel
Produced by: Hannah Doherty
Year: 2010
Language: English

A video made by Panos London for the Climate Change Media Partnership gives an insight into the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) mechanism from the perspective of local people in Indonesia, with journalists, scientists and critics giving their opinions on the proposed scheme.

More info: www.climatemediapartnership.org and  Which lake became Jaraganahalli layout ?

The Lost Lakes of Bangalore\" is a project to document Bengaluru's many tanks and lakes which have vanished or severely degraded with urbanization and growth. Here Syed Amjad Ahmed recalls a lake from the 70s that became Jaraganahalli layout 15-20 years later. See the location on Google maps here: http://bit.ly/9Pj9Nn. Which lake was this? Or was it a part of the nearby, still existing Puttenahalli lake, that was encroached. Help us find...

In this short documentary, Jesuina Braga Alves (Jo) tells her life story which illustrates the livelihood of many small scale farmers in the Brazilian Amazon whose survival has been challenged by changes on the climate, controversial rural development policies and top-down approaches to tackle deforestation. Small scale farmers have faced personal and technical difficulties to phase out slash-and-burn agricultural practices and implement agroforestry as a sustainable alternative to produce t...

This video is part of the series 'Scenes of Science, videos from the Agicultural Research Service.' It shows a method to predetermine the sex of the offspring of mammals.

More info: www.ars.usda.gov
Produced by:
Year: 2007
Language: English

Water has always been a critical driver to social and economic development. Decisions around the sharing of water are complex because water does not heed man-made borders. The CSIR and its African and international partners have developed a methodology to guide development and management of shared fresh-water resources. This framework is called the Trans-boundary Waters Opportunity Analysis and is proving to be extremely useful for governments of countries that share a river basin.

World Overview of Conservation Approaces and Technologies (WOCAT). Knowledge makes a difference. WOCAT is an international network coordinated by a Management Group consisting of: CDE, FAO, ISRIC, NDA, RELMA and WASWC.

More info: www.wocat.net
Produced by: WOCAT/FAO
Year: 2001
Languange: English

Panorama mondial des approches et des technologies de CES. Les connaissances font la différence. WOCAT est un réseau international coordonné par un Groupe de gestion constitué des institutions suivantes: CDE, FAO, ISRIC, NDA, RELMA and WASWC.

More info: www.wocat.net
Produced by: WOCAT/FAO
Year: 2001
Languange: French, also available in

This video shows how FAO is helping women in Niger in accessing natural water sources and developing methods of localized irrigation.

More info: www.fao.org/nr/water  
Produced by: FAO
Year:
Language: English

This film shows the sustainable experience of four communities  in establishing drinking water supply and simplified sewerage systems in the peri-urban area of Santiago de Cali, Colombia. It gives some evidences about the importance of developing this kind of projects involving communities with a gender approach.

More info: www.genderandwater.org and cin...

In Safou Nassaroua, Niger, villager Kilima Sabaou does not have access to safe, clean drinking water. Her children constantly suffer from diarrhoea and malnutrition. Unicef is working to provide clean water for her and the all the people in her village.

More info: Unicef Television 
Produced by: Sabine Dolan and Kun Li - Unicef Television
Year: 2006
Language: English

This film was produced in support of the recommendations of the Delta Comission.
The Delta Commission reported in  2008 their recommantation to the Cabinet. The recommendation is a long term vision on how the Netherlands can deal with the consequences of climate change to 2100 and beyond - with a view to 2200.

Meer info: www.deltacommissie.com

On World Water Day, as on every other day, some 2.5 billion people will be 'doing their business' somewhere other than in a toilet or latrine. That is not a statistic many people want to examine too closely, but it is crucial data for efforts to reduce child mortality.

More info: Unicef television
Produced by: Unicef
Year: 2008
Language: English

Around the world, 900 million people have to wash with, bathe in and drink dirty water. This leads to diseases which kill around 400 children every day. It stands in the way of school, a job and a way out of poverty. The UK Government is supporting initiatives in developing countries all over the world to make this happen.

More info: www.worldvision.org.uk and www.d...

Public Service Announcement. Imagine a world without water. In Asia, 1 in 5 people don't have access to safe water. Working together we can give millions safe water to drink.

More info: www.adb.org
Produced by: ADB
Year:
Language: English

The peatland swamps of Borneo hold large stocks of carbon. Learn about WWF's work with the local communities to restore the peat swamps and the biodiversity in Borneo in a narrated tour in Google Earth. You can download the tour to Google on your computer at http://www.google.com/cop15

More info: http://www.google.com/cop15
Produced by:
Year: 2009

On September 26th 2009, 4,000 citizens from 38 countries gathered to deliberate upon the central issues being negotiated at COP15. To help the citizens understand the complexities of the issues, 4 info videos were shown and written information materials handed out beforehand. This video is the first of the four and it concerns the science of global warming. 

More info: www.wwviews.org 
Produced by: The Danish Board of ...

On September 26th 2009, 4,000 citizens from 38 countries gathered to deliberate upon the central issues being negotiated at COP15. To help the citizens understand the complexities of the issues, 4 info videos were shown and written information materials handed out beforehand. This video is the second of the four and it concerns UN and the Kyoto protocol.

More info: www.wwviews.org
Produced by: The Danish Board of Technology<...

On September 26th 2009, 4,000 citizens from 38 countries gathered to deliberate upon the central issues being negotiated at COP15. To help the citizens understand the complexities of the issues, 4 info videos were shown and written information materials handed out beforehand. This video is the third of the four and it concerns dealing with greenhouse emissions

More info: www.wwviews.org 
Produced by: The Danish Board of Techn...

On September 26th 2009, 4,000 citizens from 38 countries gathered to deliberate upon the central issues being negotiated at COP15. To help the citizens understand the complexities of the issues, 4 info videos were shown and written information materials handed out beforehand. This video is the fourth video of the four and it addresses the economy of technology and adaptation.

More info: www.wwviews.org 
Produced by: The Danis...

This video shows the signing of the agreement of cooperation in the management of the Zambezi.

More info: Zambezi Action Plan
Produced by: Zamcom secretariat
Year: 2003
Language: English

This EMPOWERS video addresses local water governance in Jenin district (north of West Bank) and discusses water shortage, security and the political situation which all influences water governance. This video shows interviews with the Palestinian Water Authority, villagers, farmers, Maithaloun clinic and EMPOWERS employees.

EMPOWERS is a regional partnership of fifteen organizations allied together to improve long-term access to water by local communities. EMPOWERS advocates st...

\"The Lost Lakes of Bangalore\" is a project to document Bengaluru's many tanks and lakes which have vanished with unplanned urbanization and growth. This is the winning video of the contest in the \"General\" category In \"Err-bane truth\" ( a pun on our 'urbane' follies) Nishant Ratnakar and Badekkila Pradeep take on possibly the most strikinge of Bangalore's lost lakes - Dharmambudhi tank which is now the site of the Majestic Bus Station. Starting off on an imaginative note, the movie ...