Water for Life Decade >> UN Video library >> Water scarcity

UN Video library: Water scarcity

2011

Kenya: Water Scarcity
UN in Action, November 2011
Place: Kenya
Duration: 3min48sec
In Kenya, the International Atomic Energy Agency is helping farmers make the most of limited water resources. Innovative irrigation and nuclear techniques enable communities to grow stronger crops while protecting the environment.

Morocco's solution to water scarcity
FAO
Place: Morocco
Duration: 3min30sec
Change is on the way for Morocco's approach to irrigation. Thanks to an FAO development project that brings together local farmers into water user groups, drip irrigation (letting water drip slowly to the roots of plants by means of a network of valves, pipes and emitters) is widespreading throughout the country. This means increasing yeld from crops, enhancing training programs to assist the transition, and less field work for women too.

2009

(The) Last Kankan of Nakhchivan
UNTV 21st Century
Place: Azerbaijan
Duration: 9min04sec
Water scarcity has become one of our greatest challenges. In less than twenty years, nearly two billion people could face water shortages. But one country - Azerbaijan - which sits between Europe and Western Asia - has come up with an ingenious solution to its water crisis.

Water scarcity
FAO
Duration: 3min27sec
Some quick facts about water and water scarcity. What is the problem, which are the consequences, how to handle it and live with it.