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2011

Water in Cities
UNESCO's International Hydrological Programme, 2011
Duration: 5min56sec
This short film aims to illustrate present and future challenges in urban water management, highlighting water problems facing cities around the world. As water has become an increasingly crucial issue facing many cities around the world today, film is designed to promote sustainable and innovative approaches that UNESCO is pursuing to help countries address water problems in fast-growing cities, and to assist cities to develop strategies for sustainable urban water management.

2010

Water loss reduction in cities around the world
UN Water-Decade Programme on Capacity Development (UNW-DPC)
Duration: 15min45sec
This video touches on the problem of water leakage in the water distribution systems in cities around the world. Water experts discuss the challenges of water loss faced every day and suitable solutions to increase efficiency in urban water supply systems.

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene intervention in Korogocho Slums, Nairobi, Kenya
United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)
Place: Kenya
Duration: 4min10sec
This video shows the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene interventions from UN-Habitat in Korogocho Slums, Nairobi, Kenya. The initiative is being implemented in 11 primary schools. Water supply and hand wash have been completed and handed over to at least six of the respective schools.

2009

Unheard Voices of Poor Urban Women (Water and Sanitation)
United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)
Place: Kenya
Duration: 9min27sec
This video shows the problems that women in slums around the world encounter in relation to water and sanitation.

2006

Mexico struggles to save its watery past
UNTV: UN in Action
Place: Mexico
Duration: 3min19sec
Mexico City traditionally relied on its vast network of lakes and canals to preserve its landscape. With modernization and urban sprawl on the rise, the city's water quality has been reduced by pollutants and other unregulated activities. It now depends on an old treatment plant instead of fresh springs for its water supply. This situation is making agriculture difficult and is posing a threat to animal and plant life as well.