Water is the wellspring of our lives.It is a resource, which communities managed with remarkable skill over many generations. But today our water resources are depleting fast because we let our community-managed systems of the past fade away. But the crisis is also an opportunity to remedy matters. CSE brings you a selection of 28 films, chosen from diverse water management experiences throughout the world. Whether you are a corporate, an education/training institute, an NGO, a government institute or a concerned citizen, this is your chance to disseminate critical knowledge about water and to create awareness about the need to manage it better. Come. Make use of these films. Encourage critical reflection and promote collaborative learning & action.

Arvari

Rs 950.00

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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Burning Bush

Rs 950.00

Forest fires raging across Central Kalimantan in Borneo are destroying vital peat swamp forests, and exacerbating climate change. Working 24-hour shifts, Indonesian fire fighting teams have been battling roaring flames above ground, but also struggling to extinguish the more insidious, hard-to-detect underground peat fires. Scientists estimate that deforestation contributes up to 20 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Duration: 24 Minutes
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Changing Currents : Boiling Point

Rs 950.00

Conflict on sharing of the waters in the Okavango river system in Africa, the Rio Grande in North America and West Bank in water-starved Middle East. The need of the hour, as hydrologist Peter Ashton points out in the film, is to “balance” all concerns, but is anybody listening?

Duration: 26 Minutes
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Changing Currents : Pumping Pressure

Rs 950.00

This film documents the plight of mining affected people in South Africa. Gujarat, India where communities have found new ways to catch rainfall. Water scarcity has forced farmers to innovate.

Duration: 26 Minutes
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Changing Currents : Tell Tale Signs

Rs 950.00

Climate change and its impact on the availability of water is the subject of Tell Tale Signs in Orissa in India and Mozambique in Africa.The film puts forth a strong case for communities and official agencies to work together to adapt to changing climate.

Duration: 26 Minutes
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Changing Currents: Dam Dam Dam

Rs 950.00

Big dams. Love them or hate them, we have to live with them. Environmental campaigners contend that vast schemes such as the Three Gorges in China or Narmada in India are social and environmental catastrophes in the making. But their backers have a different view. Big dams provide non-polluting energy and control flooding. This film presents the case for and against big dams.

Duration: 26 Minutes
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Changing Currents: Land of the Rising Water

Rs 950.00

Examines Japan’s success in urban water management to tackle floods and conserve the country’s wetlands. Also offers community initiatives like rainwater harvesting that could show the way.

Duration: 26 Minutes
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Changing Currents: Net Profits

Rs 950.00

A staggering one third of the world’s protein comes from fish. But 11 of the world’s 15 major fishing grounds are seriously depleted. With no slackening in the pace at which the seas are being over-fished, increasingly inland freshwater fisheries are taking up the slack. This programme looks at measures underway to sustain the boom in fish farming.

Duration: 26 Minutes
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Changing Currents: Not a Dirty Word

Rs 950.00

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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Changing Currents: Plumbing The Rights Part-1

Rs 950.00

Focuses on the issue of water as a common property and a right that is indistinguishable from the right to life. The film documents local communities from India and South Africa striving to maintain this right in the face of official opposition.

Duration: 26 Minutes
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