In this first episode of TheWaterChannel podcast, we discuss how the #COVID19 pandemic affected smallholder farmers. We speak to a group of researchers who studied the pandemic’s impact on smallholder farmers in India, Algeria, and Morocco: Irene Leonardelli (IHE Delft, The Netherlands), Lisa Bossenbroek (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germanya), Hind Ftouhi (Hassan IIInstitute of Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine, Morocco), Sneha Bhat (SOPPECOM, India), and Meriem F. Hamamouche (Bureau d'Etudes, Consulting dans le domaine Agricole).

The women, the land, & the virus: COVID19 impact on smallholder farmers

In 2015, Chennai was hit by a major flood, considered to be the worst flood to hit that part of the world in a century. The initial narratives around the flood painted it as an act of nature, an inevitable effect of Climate Change. In months that followed, a federal investigation declared that the flood was a man-made disaster created out of bad water management, lack of early warning, and highly politicized aid and relief efforts. 
In this podcast, author Krupa GE recounts the story of chronicling all that in her acclaimed book 'Rivers Remember.' https://krupage.com/

Rivers Remember: How the 2015 floods changed Chennai

Globally, nearly 7 million people live in refugee camps. Refugee camps are temporary facilities for people on the move, and are built as such-- tents, prefab material, communal taps, and so forth. What about toilets? How does one design, operate, and maintain systems that can catch, store, and treat the vast quantities of poop and piss produced by a dense community.... which is formed quickly and grows rapidly? 
Tineke Hooijmans, Assistant Professor in Sanitary Engineering (IHE Delft, The Netherlands)explains the difficulties of this task, and the state of sanitation in refugee camps across the world.

Toilets in Refugee Camps: Tineke Hooijmans, IHE Delft

Every centimetre of sea level rise is directly felt here at the low-lying Sundarbans – world’s largest mangrove forest, and income sources for millions of local citizens. Lives of millions of people are constantly at risk of coastal erosion, salinization, mega cyclones and flooding. We talk to award-winning photographer Supratim Bhattacharjee about life at this climate forefront. Living next to the Sundarbans, Supratim takes provocative photos to portray climate change impacts, and how the people of the Sundarbans are dealing with them on a daily basis. 
This is a production of TheWaterChannel. For more episodes of our podcast, visit: https://bit.ly/3yNQMgn 
Visit Supratim’s portfolio:  https://www.supratimbhattacharjee.com/

Life at the climate forefront: The Sundarbans through photos

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