Television for Education-Asia Pacific (TVEAP) has a series of five-minute videos on YouTube highlighting the work of the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food in some of the more important river basins of the world:
With water scarcity emerging as a global concern, we simply cannot continue the water-intense methods of the past. Yet, as human numbers increase, more food needs to be produced with the same — or shrinking — land. This calls for smarter, thriftier ways of using freshwater and increasing water’s productivity in agriculture, without damaging the environment, or undermining food security, jobs or health.