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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Faecal Attraction is the latest film from CSE which is about the absurd relationship between rich people's shit and poor people's water. Most rivers in India have turned into sewage canals. The stretches passing through cities are the worst off. What the urban middle class is most bothered about is the lost beauty of these rivers. So urban authorities evict poor people living in 'illegal' shanties by the rivers or they build expensive sewage treatment plants to clean the rivers. But nothing works. This comes at a cost. Poor people get very little water, mostly unsafe, and pay more for it in the bargain. They do not get sanitation cover and pay a heavy price in terms of health.

Duration: 32 Minutes
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‘Clean Your Act’ is a film about alternative ways to treat wastewater. It is about how communities, institutions and individual households have begun literally cleaning up their act by recycling their wastewater using technologies that match the scale of their need. The film’s crew travelled from Puducherry to Pune, from Indore to Ujjain, and from Agra to Delhi to capture the various technologies at work, each unique and different, but all effective. The film’s purpose is to break out of STP-dependence. Whether you are a householder, architect, engineer or professional interested in spreading the word on ecological sanitation, the film will serve the purpose.

Duration: 42 Minutes
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Catch rain where it falls. This is the unambiguous message that The Rain Catchers, a training and awareness video on urban rainwater harvesting, carries. The video is an easy-to-use resource guide. It answers all the key questions - such as what is urban rainwater harvesting and how it is done - and goes further to look at policy dimensions, products and technologies and maintenance issues across a range of geoclimatic zones in India.

Duration: 38 Minutes
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Sukhomajri in the Siwalik; Ralegaon Siddhi in the Deccan Plateau; Seed in Aravali; and Penchgani in Baripada; are not just names of a few Indian villages, but of the true temples of modern India. They have dared to take control of their environment into their own hands and change their economic fate. These village republics depict that environmental management, in rural India, is a matter of giving power to the people to manage their natural resources.

Duration: 50 Minutes
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Environmentalist Anil Agarwal and noted Danish journalist and writer Knud Vilby discuss the issue of air pollution, governance and how we move ahead. 7500 people die every year because of air pollution. How do policy makers look at this problem? Do they stress on ecology, or on economy? Development in a poor country, like India, is not cheap. The film records the initial stages of CSE’s Right To Clean Air campaign.

Duration: 32 Minutes
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