Journey For Survival

Drought, desert, famine. Half the world's population must daily take a thirsty journey in search of water for survival, a search made even more difficult because the water they do find will almost certainly be contaminated.

• Categories: News & Features / Features
• Video Length: 00:15:03
• Production Date: 1 April 1981
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF; UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME - UNDP; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION - WHO
• Subject Topical: HEALTH EDUCATION; MALNUTRITION; SANITATION; WATER SUPPLY
• Geographic Subject: BANGLADESH; ETHIOPIA; INDIA; PERU; PHILIPPINES; UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA; YEMEN
• MAMS Id: 1952522
• Parent Id: 837410

Description

Where scarcity and contamination compound the water problem so too does inadequate sanitation. But now for the first time there is an international effort to bring safe water to the entire world. JOURNEY FOR SURVIVAL examines how this goal is being achieved in a variety of countries: Ethiopia, Yemen, Peru, India, Bangladesh and the Philippines. Under the aegis of the United Nations International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade 1981-1990 we see how small-technology, community action solutions are tackling 'a problem which is at the very heart of the development effort.

• Scripts: File; JOURNEY FOR SURVIVAL 1981 EN 591 SCRIPT.pdf (376.24 KB); File; JOURNEY FOR SURVIVAL 1981 EN 591 SYNOPSIS APR 81.pdf (134.81 KB)