Clean Living Part 2

TVE press release
World Water Day Earth Report- Clean Living Part 2
 
 
Thursday March 20^th: to mark World Water Day 2008 – as well as the International Year of Sanitation - this week’s Earth Report returns to Ethiopia. TVE has been tracking development in Ethiopia for over 24 years now, since the devastating 1984/5 famine that launched ‘Live Aid’ and the massive global aid response it triggered. But 24 years on, 40 million Ethiopians – half the total population - still don’t have access to a toilet, and the government acknowledges that almost half child deaths are linked to poor sanitation and hygiene.
 
But now Ethiopia’s government has ambitious plans to change this – reducing child mortality and ensuring all Ethiopians have access to a toilet by 2012. According to the Ethiopian Health Ministry, the number of Ethiopians who had access to a toilet increased from one in 10 in 2002 to just over half - 51 per cent – in 2007. Over the next five years, the government wants to ensure every single Ethiopian can use a toilet. Earth Report travels across the country to find out just what they are doing to meet their target.
 
Earth Report Clean Living Part 2 is broadcast on BBC World at the following times (all times quoted as UK time zone currently GMT):
 
Friday 21st March - 20:30, with repeats at 10:30 on Monday 24th March, 15:30 on Tuesday 25th, and 02:30 and 08:30 on Wednesday 26th.
 
For more information on programme schedules in local time zones visit www.bbcworld.com
 
 
Building latrines is part of the Ethiopian government’s strategy to halt diarrhoeal disease. But just building latrines won’t produce a revolution overnight. The government needs to change Ethiopians’ attitude toward using toilets too.
 
To make sure everyone has access to a toilet, the government is relying not just on local leaders to change Ethiopians’ attitudes to open defecation - it’s also working with women because they are the ones with the largest say in their families’ health and welfare. As a result, the government is employing an army of 24,000 female health extension workers, all trained in health, hygiene and sanitation.
 
As well as health benefits, latrines can provide other side benefits: one very simple toilet is called an ‘arborloo’ - a simple pit that costs less than US$5. When full, the old pit is the perfect fertile home for a young tree.
 
In a suburb of the capital Addis Ababa, another type of latrine addresses both the growing urban pollution problem as well as the need for cooking fuel.  Human sewage, as well as organic material, is put down the latrine into a chamber where bacteria break down the waste, producing biogas – a clean fuel which can then be piped to the communal kitchens.
 
 
“With proper hand washing you can prevent about 45% of the diseases communicable through faeces.”
Kebede Faris, World Bank, Water and Sanitation Program
 
“Now we have these latrines, we can use them for a lot of our domestic waste. Using firewood is smokey, it dirties the house, and makes our clothes smell. The biogas is far better.” Kelemula Legesse
 
“The International Year of Sanitation, for us, I think it’s a great opportunity to augment whatever initiatives we have started.  We have to make sure that our villages are free of open defecation.”
Shiferaw Teklemariam, Ethiopian Minister of Health
 
 
Clean Living Part 2 was produced with the help of the UK Department for International Development (DFID); UN Water; UNICEF and the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council.
 
TVE distributes Earth Report programmes for broadcast and educational use globally and works with its Partners to distribute programmes for use in countries across Africa, Asia & the Pacific, and Latin America & the Caribbean – to schools, colleges, universities, NGOs, environmental agencies and other ‘multiplier’ organisations.
 
Contacts and information:
 
For further information on the programme, production team and issues raised look up www.tve.org/earthreport
 
 
DFID’s work on water and sanitation www.dfid.gov.uk/mdg/water.asp
 
UN Water www.unwater.org/
 
Unicef’s work on water www.unicef.org/wes/index.html
 
Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council’s work www.wsscc.org/
 
 

Earth Report - Clean Living Part 2

World Water Day Earth Report- Clean Living Part 2

 
 
Thursday March 20^th: to mark World Water Day 2008 – as well as the International Year of Sanitation - this week’s Earth Report returns to Ethiopia. TVE has been tracking development in Ethiopia for over 24 years now, since the devastating 1984/5 famine that launched ‘Live Aid’ and the massive global aid response it triggered. But 24 years on, 40 million Ethiopians – half the total population - still don’t have access to a toilet, and the government acknowledges that almost half child deaths are linked to poor sanitation and hygiene.
 
But now Ethiopia’s government has ambitious plans to change this – reducing child mortality and ensuring all Ethiopians have access to a toilet by 2012. According to the Ethiopian Health Ministry, the number of Ethiopians who had access to a toilet increased from one in 10 in 2002 to just over half - 51 per cent – in 2007. Over the next five years, the government wants to ensure every single Ethiopian can use a toilet. Earth Report travels across the country to find out just what they are doing to meet their target.
 
Earth Report Clean Living Part 2 is broadcast on BBC World at the following times (all times quoted as UK time zone currently GMT):
 
Friday 21st March - 20:30, with repeats at 10:30 on Monday 24th March, 15:30 on Tuesday 25th, and 02:30 and 08:30 on Wednesday 26th.
 
For more information on programme schedules in local time zones visit www.bbcworld.com
 
 
Building latrines is part of the Ethiopian government’s strategy to halt diarrhoeal disease. But just building latrines won’t produce a revolution overnight. The government needs to change Ethiopians’ attitude toward using toilets too.
 
To make sure everyone has access to a toilet, the government is relying not just on local leaders to change Ethiopians’ attitudes to open defecation - it’s also working with women because they are the ones with the largest say in their families’ health and welfare. As a result, the government is employing an army of 24,000 female health extension workers, all trained in health, hygiene and sanitation.
 
As well as health benefits, latrines can provide other side benefits: one very simple toilet is called an ‘arborloo’ - a simple pit that costs less than US$5. When full, the old pit is the perfect fertile home for a young tree.
 
In a suburb of the capital Addis Ababa, another type of latrine addresses both the growing urban pollution problem as well as the need for cooking fuel.  Human sewage, as well as organic material, is put down the latrine into a chamber where bacteria break down the waste, producing biogas – a clean fuel which can then be piped to the communal kitchens.
 
 
“With proper hand washing you can prevent about 45% of the diseases communicable through faeces.”
Kebede Faris, World Bank, Water and Sanitation Program
 
“Now we have these latrines, we can use them for a lot of our domestic waste. Using firewood is smokey, it dirties the house, and makes our clothes smell. The biogas is far better.” Kelemula Legesse
 
“The International Year of Sanitation, for us, I think it’s a great opportunity to augment whatever initiatives we have started.  We have to make sure that our villages are free of open defecation.”
Shiferaw Teklemariam, Ethiopian Minister of Health
 
 
Clean Living Part 2 was produced with the help of the UK Department for International Development (DFID); UN Water; UNICEF and the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council.
 
TVE distributes Earth Report programmes for broadcast and educational use globally and works with its Partners to distribute programmes for use in countries across Africa, Asia & the Pacific, and Latin America & the Caribbean – to schools, colleges, universities, NGOs, environmental agencies and other ‘multiplier’ organisations.
 
Contacts and information:
 
For further information on the programme, production team and issues raised look up www.tve.org/earthreport
 
DFID’s work on water and sanitation www.dfid.gov.uk/mdg/water.asp
 
UN Water www.unwater.org/
 
Unicef’s work on water www.unicef.org/wes/index.html
 
Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council’s work www.wsscc.org/
 
 

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INDIA LAUNCH OF 'WHY WOMEN COUNT'

INDIA LAUNCH OF ‘WHY WOMEN COUNT’

Tuesday March 18, 2008: The most ambitious TV series yet on the lives of women around the world will be launched today in India before an audience of over 200 invited guests in New Delhi.

DFID India, the UK Department for International Development, together with TVE South Asia, will host the India launch of Why Women Count, the powerful new series from The Broadcasting for Change Network, at the British Council/British High Commission Auditorium.  This follows other launch events around the world – including in London, hosted by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office with Human Rights Watch and Al Jazeera English, and in Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, with support from UNDP Caribbean, in November 2007.

Fiona Lappin, Deputy Head, DFID India, Jenny Richards, Deputy Director, TVE, and Poojita Chowdhury, Producer, will introduce the evening, followed by a screening of seven of the Why Women Count films from Lebanon, Pakistan, Kosovo, Nepal, Sierra Leone, Bolivia and India.

After the screening, addresses will be given by Manjula Krishnan, Economic Advisor, Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India; Ena Singh, Assistant Representative UNFPA, India; Rukmini Rao, TVE Trustee and finally the Chief Guest, Mr Mani Shankar Aiyar, Honourable Union Minister for Panchayati Raj and Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports.  

Why Women Count is the groundbreaking new series of 41 short films, made in 41 countries by the global Broadcasting for Change Network - a unique group of international broadcasters and producers founded by TVE in 1995, and committed to producing and airing programmes on women's rights and equality worldwide.

Fiona Lappin, Deputy Head, DFID India says: "there is a strong link between women's empowerment and progress against other development targets. Empowering women brings many positive, knock-on effects including better child health and economic growth. Mothers who have been to school are more likely to have children who survive and are healthy, and women who are educated are more able to claim their rights and contribute to development. We are happy to host the launch of the film series Why Women Count in India. We are sure that these stories from different parts of the globe will bring hope and inspiration for the fight against gender inequality."

Highlights of the films to be screened include Mai Masri’s profile of journalist Fadia Bazzeh’s report on the bombing of Lebanon in July 2006, awarded an honorary mention in the prestigious IAWRT awards in September, Nepalese champion Lily Thapa’s campaign to overturn stigmatization and discrimination against widows in Nepal, and Poojita Chowdhury’s story on women sarpanches, Panchayat leaders, entitled ‘Queens of the Grassroots’, which will be the focus of the Chief Guest’s address.

Broadcasts of the Why Women Count films worldwide are already taking place in countries across the world and new launch events and debates are planned over the next few months.

“We are delighted to have the opportunity to preview the series for an Indian audience,” says TVE’s Regional Coordinator for South Asia, Chris Miller. “We hope the event will feed into the ongoing debate about why empowering women is so central to international development and lead to having the films versioned in the languages of India and broadcast widely to audiences throughout the country.”

The Why Women Count series is available on DVCam, VHS and DVD compilation tapes from TVE for non-broadcast use.

For more information about the launch and series, or to order DVDs or other tapes, please contact Anshul Ojha, tel +91 935 097 6737.

Or visit the website www.tve.org/whywomencount

Why Women Count was made possible with the generous help of: The Sigrid Rausing Trust, the Global Opportunities Fund - FCO, Al Jazeera English, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), UNIFEM, the British Council, and Ascent Media.

Notes to editors:

TVE (Television for the Environment) is an independent, non-profit organisation, founded in 1984 – with the support of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), WWF and Central Television (now ITV) in the UK – to raise awareness and trigger informed debate about development, environment, health and human rights issues worldwide through television and other electronic media.  

TVE produces, co-produces and distributes a wide range of programmes for broadcast and non-broadcast, educational and campaigning use. In 2006-7 TVE programmes were transmitted in 170 countries, reaching more than 280 million homes, and versioned into 23 languages.

TVE programmes are broadcast on global channels such as BBC World and Al Jazeera English. They are then distributed, for regional, national and local broadcast as well as non-broadcast educational outreach, via TVE’s 49 partners in Africa, Asia & the Pacific, and Latin America & the Caribbean and through TVE’s distribution unit in London.  TVE’s nine partners in South Asia are: the Community Development Library (CDL), Bangladesh; Development Alternatives (DA), India; the Centre for Science & Environment (CSE), India; the Centre for Environment Education (CEE), India; Earth Matters Foundation/Riverbank Studios, India; Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ), Nepal; Serendip Productions, Pakistan; TrustHELP, India, and WWF-Pakistan.  

TVE now has a new, Regional Coordinating office in Delhi (hosted by Development Alternatives) working with all our South Asian Partners, which will enable us to increase the number of high profile launch events, discussions, broadcasts and non-broadcast distribution of programmes in the region.  We are actively identifying various corporate sponsors, local foundations, international donors, and other partners to work with in developing new projects for wider use and distribution of existing films, to be used in their work and to reach the widest possible audiences, and for production of new films in collaboration with new partners.  

The Why Women Count series was produced by broadcasters from the following countries: Afghanistan, Austria, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Brazil, China, Cuba, Czech Republic, Fiji, France, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mexico, Nepal, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Spain, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Zimbabwe.

Core funders of TVE’s South Asia activities are Christian Aid and corporate sponsor InterfaceFLOR, through its recently launched project, “Fairworks” http://www.interfaceflor.eu/internet/web.nsf/webpages/why_fairworks_EN.html.  TVE’s institutional host for the South Asia office is Development Alternatives.

Earth Report: Clean Living

Earth Report: Clean Living

 
Forty per cent of the world’s population are without access to a latrine or toilet. In the International Year of Sanitation, Earth Report travels to Bangladesh to discover changing rural attitudes to hygiene. More and more villages are introducing their own sanitation and building their own toilets. Instead of top-down solutions, a new approach – Community Led Total Sanitation – has eradicated ‘open defecation’ in more than 300 villages.
 
Earth Report 'Clean Living' is broadcast on BBC World at the following times (all times quoted as UK time zone currently GMT):
 
Friday 14th March - 20:30, with repeats at 04.30 on Saturday 15 March; 10:30 on Monday 17 March; 15:30 on Tuesday 18 March; and 02:30 and 08:30 on Wednesday 19 March.
 
For more information on programme schedules in local time zones visit www.bbcworld.com
 
Bangladesh is the most densely populated country in the world, yet half the population don’t have access to proper sanitation. It means they are forced to use areas around their villages as their toilet - including fields and rivers. Wandering livestock spreads the faeces around. It contaminates homes and food and the resulting diarrhoeal diseases, according to WaterAid, kill 125,000 children under the age of five, every year.  
 
But a remarkable change is taking place. Health worker Kamal Kar is helping communities change their sanitation habits. He’s not doing this by giving away free or subsidised toilets but by encouraging people to fix their own sanitation problems. He calls this approach ‘Community Led Total Sanitation’, or CLTS.  
 
The villagers are asked to draw a map of their village using blue powder. Then they are asked to put yellow powder in places where they defecate. The team then show how easily people and livestock spread faeces around the village, even inside people’s homes.
 
While using toilets helps stop the spread of diarrhoeal diseases, there are other surprising benefits. Once the land previously used as a lavatory is cleaned up, the villagers can grow food on it. This is particularly important during the time of Monga – the period of seasonal hunger between sowing and harvest when there’s no work.
 
“There is a huge amount of local knowledge that exists in the minds of the people and engineering knowledge for that matter, and they go on to form whole innovative approaches and develop things.  But if we bring the technology and prescription from outside it blocks them.” Kamal Kar, Community Sanitation Expert
 
“We didn’t realise before that open defecation can cause a lot of diseases like diarrhoea and cholera. That’s why we are digging this toilet now.” Villager
 
“CLTS has now spread to nine different villages around here, and out of those 5 have 100 per cent toilet coverage and the other 4 partial work has been done.” CARE Worker
 
Clean Living was produced with the help of the UK Department for International Development (DFID); UN Water; UNICEF and the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council.
 
TVE and its Partners distribute Earth Report programmes for broadcast and educational and campaigning use in countries across Africa, Asia & the Pacific, and Latin America & the Caribbean – to schools, colleges, universities, NGOs, environmental agencies and other ‘multiplier’ organisations.
 
Contacts and information:
 
For further information on the programme, production team and issues raised look up www.tve.org/earthreport
 
DFID’s work on water and sanitation www.dfid.gov.uk/mdg/water.asp
 
UN Water www.unwater.org/
 
Unicef’s work on water www.unicef.org/wes/index.html
 
Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council’s work www.wsscc.org/
 
 
 
 

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY BROADCASTS FOR 'WHY WOMEN COUNT'

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY BROADCASTS FOR ‘WHY WOMEN COUNT’

Friday March 7th: To mark International Women’s Day 2008, television channels in Brazil, Bosnia and Lithuania will broadcast films from the groundbreaking ‘Why Women Count’ series on March 8^th.

In Brazil, Sao Paolo-based TV Cultura starts weekly transmission of the series in the prime-time, 8.30 pm slot, from March 8^th, with a presenter introducing four of the ‘Why Women Count’ series every Saturday night. In Bosnia & Herzegovina, National TV channel BHT1 is broadcasting one film from the series every week in its weekly foreign affairs magazine GLOBAL transmitted on Sunday nights. And in Lithuania, LVT 2 - national TV’s second terrestrial and satellite channel - will broadcast a special 10-film compilation for International Women’s Day, including films from Rwanda, Lebanon, India, Bangladesh, Brazil, Spain, France, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Macedonia and Lithuania.

Other ‘Why Women Count’ screenings scheduled in March include broadcast of the Macedonian film, ‘Biljana from Alcatraz’ on Austrian state television, ORF, on March 5^th; the 18th International Film Festival held by the University of the Philippines Film Institute - ‘Wandering, Wondering, Wonderful Women’ -  focusing specifically on women migrants and overseas Filipino workers, from 10^th – 13^th March 2008; and the India launch of the series, hosted by DFID at the British Council in New Delhi, on Tuesday March 18^th.

Coordinated by TVE, the 41 short films in the Why Women Count series were made in 41 countries around the world by the members of the global ‘Broadcasting for Change Network’ - a unique group of international broadcasters and producers committed to producing and airing programmes on women's rights and equality worldwide. The series focuses on women's empowerment and its role in the political, economic and social development of countries, communities and families.  Broadcasts of the series have already taken place in Austria, Bolivia, China, Macedonia, Mexico, Nepal, Thailand, Uganda, Trinidad & Togabo and Zimbabwe.  

The Lebanese film in the series, ‘In the Eye of the Storm’, directed by Mai Masri, won an honourable mention at the prestigious IAWRT awards in September 2007. Further broadcasts and launch events are planned for the summer of 2008.

The Why Women Count series is available on Beta, VHS and DVD compilation tapes from TVE for non-broadcast use. Through TVE, the Series is available in Spanish and English.

For more information about the launch and series visit the website www.tve.org/whywomencount

Why Women Count was made possible with the generous help of: The Sigrid Rausing Trust, the Global Opportunities Fund - FCO, Al Jazeera English, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), UNIFEM, the British Council, and Ascent Media.

TVE Press Release – Grounds for Hope

 Earth Report – Grounds for Hope
 
4 March 2008: Feeding the growing global café craze, over half the world’s coffee now comes from Central America. Coffee farming is central to the region’s economy – but it’s also been a major culprit in the pollution of the rivers running through the Guatemala/Mexico border area. Communities living along the banks have compounded the damage by cutting the forests once covering the steep hillsides, eroding the fragile soils by sheep grazing, and using the rivers as a rubbish dump.
 
Now coffee farmers are leading the way in reversing the damage and rebuilding the threatened eco-system - at the same time tapping into a new market for top quality coffee. This week’s Earth Report goes to Guatemala and Mexico to see whether this really is a win-win situation.
 
Earth Report – Grounds for Hope will be broadcast on BBC World:
 
Friday 7 March - 20.30, with repeat broadcasts on Monday 10 March 10.30, Tuesday 11 March 15.30 and Wednesday 12 March 02.30 and 08.30 (All times quoted as GMT)
 
For more information on programme schedules in local time zones visit www.bbcworld.com
 
The Tajumulco and Tacana volcanoes soar high above the coffee plantations that cover the hillsides on the Guatemala-Mexico border - at the heart of a watershed system that is almost a million years old.
 
But the mountainsides once cloaked in trees are stripped bare as the dense, and growing, local population clears the forest for firewood and crop planting. Their sheep herds add to the damage, and – once the vegetation is gone - heavy tropical rainfalls wash the top soil down into the rivers, increasing the risk of devastating mudslides.
 
Coffee has been at the heart of Guatemala’s economy for over 100 years, and today generates a third of the country’s foreign earnings. And coffee farms are now changing the way they use their most precious resource - water. Newly harvested beans have to be soaked in gallons of water to remove the husks, and the acidic waste water is then dumped back in the river, harming aquatic life. One farm, La Igualdad, formerly used three million litres of water to process its yearly harvest of 70 tonnes of beans. Now, in a remarkable turnaround, La Igualdad recycles its water throughout the process – reducing consumption by 93 percent.
 
Farming communities are also doing their bit. In May 2007, they started a tree nursery in Tacana, planting 13,660 trees to replace those chopped down for firewood. Project leader Lazaro Peres hopes to increase this number to 30-40,000 trees planted in 2008. A similar project is replanting mangrove forest further down the river where it meets the sea.
 
“Because we are right at the very top her, this situation also affects the communities below us. Climate change has meant that we now see extremely heavy rain on a regular basis in one afternoon which this soil is unable to cope with.” Jeronimo Navarro, Mayor of Ixchiguan
 
“Farms used to behave very irresponsibly in terms of the environment. We have tried to look at ways of turning this around. This is why we are now working using a totally organic process.” Rene Lopez, Coffee Farmer
 
“[The mangroves] are extremely important as was seen by the recent Hurricanes Mitch and Stan because they were able to absorb large quantities of water. What we are aiming for is to have areas where the mangroves can be managed, areas like this that are stable for growth, and also areas where man’s hand cannot touch the established mangroves.” Martin Sanchez, Guatemala National Forestry Institute
 
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Grounds for Hope was produced with the support of the IUCN Water Programme
 
TVE and its Partners distribute Earth Report programmes for broadcast and educational and campaigning use in countries across Africa, Asia & the Pacific, and Latin America & the Caribbean – to schools, colleges, universities, NGOs, environmental agencies and other ‘multiplier’ organisations.

For further information on the programme, production team and issues raised look up www.tve.org/earthreport

TVE Press Release - In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro

Earth Report – In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro

 
 28 February 2008: Beneath Mount Kilimanjaro’s majestic peak, there’s a growing struggle over scarce water supplies in East Africa. Nearly four million people depend on Tanzania’s Pangani river for their water. But poor rains and increasing demand have left the land, dams, people and their herds thirsty for water.
 
In the run-up to World Water Day on March 22nd, Earth Report investigates the root cause of the shortages and conflicts - and looks at a new strategy to share out the precious waters of the Pangani river basin.
 
Earth Report – In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro will be broadcast on BBC WORLD:
 
Friday 29 February - 20.30, with repeat broadcasts on Monday 3 March 10.30, Tuesday 4 March 15.30 and Wednesday 5 March 02.30 and 08.30 (All times quoted as GMT)
 
For more information on programme schedules in local time zones visit www.bbcworld.com
 
The Pangani River in North Eastern Tanzania starts high on the slopes of Mounts Kilimanjaro and Meru. From the lush foothills of these mighty volcanoes, the river travels 500 km south east before spilling into the Indian Ocean.
 
The basin covers an area of 48,000 square kilometres, and nearly four million people depend on it for water. But now this essential resource could be in jeopardy. Lake Jipe, one source of the Pangani River on the Tanzania/Kenya border, is shrinking. According to the Global Environment Facility, the lake’s volume has dropped by half in the last 10 years.  
River levels in the Pangani have always fluctuated. But now the once reliable seasonal rains have become erratic, and local people can no longer rely on them to top up the lake in the rainy season.
 
Exacerbating the situation, farmers and a growing local population are extracting too much water, and large-scale industrial agriculture uses huge volumes of water to irrigate crops.
 
The three hydroelectric power stations situated on the Pangani River have the potential to provide 20 per cent of Tanzania’s electricity needs. Today they often run at just 30 per cent of their capacity. There’s just not enough water in the river to power them at full capacity.
 
The Pangani Basin Water Office has been established to manage the river and find a way to share out its diminishing resources. International consultants are training and working with local experts to predict how changes in water distribution will affect the river basin, and so help the Water Office to balance supply and demand. If they get it right, the Pangani River could become a leading example for the rest of the world.
 
“Before the establishment of the basin water office, the conflicts were enormous. With the establishment of the basin in 1991, we tried to educate people, to create awareness that water is everybody’s right.”
Hamza Sidiki, Pangani Basin Water Officer
 
“The change started in the 1970s. The reeds started growing a lot.
The lake is so small now, the reeds make fishing very difficult, and you can’t get many fish.”
Miraji Ramadhani, former fisherman, Lake Jipe
 
“Pangani Basin was one of the ten demonstration sites around the world to look into how people can sustainably manage and use water resources.
One of the outputs is to disseminate the information gathered here into other basins in the country, in the region, and in the world.”
Sylvand Kamugisha, Project Coordinator, IUCN
 

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In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro was produced with the support of the IUCN Water Programme
 
TVE and its Partners distribute Earth Report programmes for broadcast and educational and campaigning use in countries across Africa, Asia & the Pacific, and Latin America & the Caribbean – to schools, colleges, universities, NGOs, environmental agencies and other ‘multiplier’ organisations.

For further information on the programme, production team and issues raised look up www.tve.org/earthreport