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In Ethiopia, 65% of people don’t have access to clean drinking water. In this album we take a glimpse at the struggles Ethiopians go through each day, just to survive. We look closely at the different methods used to improve the quality of life in the rural highlands as well as the conflict between neighbouring farming villages attempting to share the same water supply. This material forms part of the course U116 Environment: journeys through a changing world.

Language: English

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Water in Ethiopia
Duration: 00:00:45
Date: 13.04.2010

Water in Ethiopia
A short introduction to this album.

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Water - a human right
Duration: 00:02:15
Date: 24.04.2009

Water - a human right
Access to water in Ethiopia can be a matter of life or death. This is brief look at the lives of people for whom an adequate water supply can never be taken for granted.

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Water in rural Ethiopia
Duration: 00:04:09
Date: 24.04.2009

Water in rural Ethiopia
A day in the life of Yeshiemebet Zewdu., a local villager who lives with her husband and five children. Her daily tasks include several trips to a spring to fetch water for all their daily needs.

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Water in urban Ethiopia
Duration: 00:04:07
Date: 24.04.2009

Water in urban Ethiopia
Life in the Ethiopian town of Bahir Dar is somewhat different from rural life we see in track 2 'Water in rural Ethiopia'. With a direct water pipe to her house, Mulugojam Tegegne and her family enjoy a relatively comfortable life.

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Three Ways of Getting Water: Rural water supply from a river.
Duration: 00:03:54
Date: 24.04.2009

Three Ways of Getting Water: Rural water supply from a river.
65% of people in Ethiopia don’t have access to clean drinking water. With the dangers of contamination and pollution, some people are forced to use the river as their only source of water.

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Three Ways of Getting Water: Rural Pump
Duration: 00:05:04
Date: 24.04.2009

Three Ways of Getting Water: Rural Pump
A water pump has transformed villagers lives and given them better health, improved productivity and has brought the community together.

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Three Ways of Getting Water: City supply
Duration: 00:04:39
Date: 24.04.2009

Three Ways of Getting Water: City supply
In Gondar, a quarter of a million residents rely on the city reservoir and water treatment works. In addition to increasing pressures from a growing population, the reservoir is already filling up with silt washed down from the surrounding area; made worse by soil erosion and inadequate environmental protection.

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Sharing a river
Duration: 00:06:25
Date: 24.04.2009

Sharing a river
Conflict arises between three farming villages in the highlands of northern Ethiopia as the communities attempt to share water from the same stretch of the Guder River.

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