Pro Poor Water

This Week's Movie Screening:

• Even The Rain

Required reading:

• Zerah, M.-H. and des Eaux, L. 2001. The Buenos Aires Concession: The Private Sector Serving the Poor. Water and Sanitation Program-South Asia, New Delhi, India.
  • https://www.wsp.org/sites/wsp.org/files/publications/sa_buenos.pdf

Movie Log Canvas Assignment for Even The Rain due at next Wednesday night class meeting at 5:10 pm

• No copying collaboration is allowed on this assignment, so be sure to submit your own answers in your own words.

Video Podcast: Water, War, and Poor

The 43-minute presentation related to the movie Even The Rain is provided to you as an online streaming video podcast that you have to watch on your own. Click the play button below to begin watching. It is provided in 640 x 480 (480p) format and should be viewable on a computer, iOS device, or Android device. Look for the small play button in the bottom left of the video player window to start the streaming video.

If the streaming video player below does not work for you, then you can download the video to your computer and watch it thereafter by clicking on one of the links below.  Given the size of these files and depending on the speed of your internet connection, it could take a long time to download, so one good option is to download them over night if you are using a slower connection.  If you can watch it streaming, then you do not have to download a video file at all.

• 640 x 480 (480p) format that balances speed and quality. (534 MB file)

Related web links

• Website for "Even The Rain"
• Pro-poor water issues
  • Water and Sanitation program- an international partnership
  • Editorial in support of pro-poor water
  • Lessons from Bolivia in pro-poor water approaches
  • Bolivia's war over water- one partisan perspective
• International Water Wars
  • Chronology of the world's water wars
  • Water wars in Africa
  • Book about water wars