This film looks at the issue of access to safe water and basic sanitation, and its centrality to any kind of development process. From India's Sulabh International's acclaimed low-cost, self-financed sanitation facilities that have led to rehabilitation of scavengers, to the successful Orangi project in Pakistan's Karachi, which has used a grassroots movement to create a self-financed sanitation grid.

Duration: 30 Minutes
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Dedicated to India’s traditional water harvesting systems. One of the basic principles of water management is simplicity itself – conserve water where it falls. But we tend to chase hydraulic nightmares: big dams and canals. An age-old wisdom lies forgotten. The camera wanders through Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu, recording the profound science of the people.

Duration: 48 Minutes
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Watch the diverse social and cultural practices which enabled large populations to survive in the harsh Indian desert environment. The villages of Thar, in Rajasthan, have amazing systems of water harvesting. Similarly, the desert farmer has devised an ingenious system to grow and maintain sources of fodder.

Language: English / Hindi
Duration: 52 Minutes
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Meet five ‘ordinary’ people, who have kept the intricate traditional science of water management alive from the modern onslaught. These barefoot Indian rural engineers have been practicing the tradition of water harvesting for quite some time. This film introduces the viewer to the technique and social management practices governing community water management.

Language: English / Hindi
Duration: 22 Minutes
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A major people’s movement in rural Rajasthan has revived the river Arvari and its tributaries. Water management techniques have completely changed the
landscape and lives in this once-denuded region.

Duration: 14 Minutes
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This is a trio of programmes investigating the role of water in power politics, ‘Good as Gold’ focuses on the United States where water is a highly marketable commodity. The second programme, ‘To the last Drop’, the focus shifts to the Middle East where water inevitably raises the stakes within every regional dispute or settlement. The final programme, ‘The Giver of Life’, highlights the Islamic heartland of the former CIS where the implications
of the Aral sea’s demise are viewed as a catastrophe on a Chernobyl scale.

Duration: 3 X 50 Minutes
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This film uses state-of-the-art graphics to guide the viewer through this intercontinental journey of a symbolic river from source to sea. Interviews with top experts and international decision-makers reinforce the message of the World Day for Water: all the water that we use is second-hand.

Duration: 26 Minutes
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Focus of this short film is on world’s most precious resource — water. In Japan, we see how the upkeep of golf courses uses seven times the amount of pesticides used in intensive agriculture. In Lesotho, two new dams are causing major upheaval to the indigenous farmers. In Kathmandu, residents experience the daily threat of contaminated water.

Duration: 26 Minutes
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This film is about using water wisely. In Malaysia, a model campaign is getting the message through that protecting forested watersheds is the key to keeping streams clean and flowing all year round; in Nepal, ram-pumps are proving popular; in South Africa, children playing on a roundabout pump up water for a nearby vegetable garden; in Greece, water ‘cigars’ are coming to the rescue of parched Aegean islands.

Duration: 24 Minutes
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