Media
EWA Water Project
In this clip, Margaret Tuhumwire, Director of Environmental Women in Action for Development (Entebbe Women Association) is describing the integrated community environmental project funded by the Small Grants Program of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). This site visit to the project in Kigungu was part of the workshop Building and Managing Sustainable Transboundary Water Institutions in Africa and Beyond organized by the UBC project in February 2010. Al Duda, Director of the International Waters program of the GEF is telling the community that their project will become a model for the Lake Victoria region.
Turning the Tide: Sustaining Earth’s Large Marine Ecosystems
The Earth’s Large Marine Ecosystems (LMEs) are places of great beauty, biodiversity and bounty. Humanity depends on the vitality of these coastal areas, yet current human activities – pollution, over-fishing, pollution and habitat destruction – are causing catastrophic harm to LMEs. A global movement has begun to stop and reverse this damage to our planet’s oceans before it’s too late. With support from the Global Environment Facility (GEF), nations are beginning to turn the tide to save LMEs.
Blue Gold : World Water Wars
Another view of the world water wars, that the world is just beginning to see the future conflicts to come.
Voces de Mujeres
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.
Eugina Morales – Artibonite Watershed
Eugina Morales runs the UNDP-GEF program in the Artibonite Watershed which is shared between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. (lang – Spanish)
Transboundary Aquifers
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.
Transboundary Water Management of the Nile
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.
The Seventh Video on Community Water Supply Management
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 interesting issues for everyone concerned with rural water supply, such as the organisational problems regarding water management and gender issues. The video is based on material from Nepal, Pakistan, Cameroon, Kenya, Colombia and Guatemala.
Water ‘Wars’ or Water ‘Woes’?
This presentation 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 over water have never occurred in modern history and are unlikely to take place in the future. Although tensions over water resources often lead countries to trade hostile words, such exchanges rarely escalate into full-fledged conflicts.
