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Kai Olson-Sawyer is program manager for H2O Conserve, a program of Grace.

Last week, we heard about an interesting and informative series of water-related videos from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), called The Watershed. This series has been produced by The National, a new English-language newspaper launched by the Abu Dhabi Media Company.

If anyone should know about water issues like water scarcity, it’s people living in traditionally arid climates with little freshwater resources and these videos cover a variety of immediate water concerns in different parts of the arid Middle East.

“The Fertile Well,” “A Flooded Future,” and “Half Full/Half Empty,”  tell stories, respectively, about the falaj, an ancient Arabic freshwater delivery system in Oman; the proposed damming and subsequent flooding of a Turkish town on the Tigris called Hasankeyf and the life-altering ramifications for its residents; and finally, the story of a Palestinian farmer and an Israeli agronomist who both think that freshwater distribution for agriculture needs to be administered better at top levels of government.

The series treats water and the people who use it in a fair and sensitive way, impressing on the audience just how vital water is as a resource. The music and especially the photography/videography is beautiful and worth a look!

And no matter what your climate, don’t forget: be conscious of water and the things you consume because, as you can learn more about here, water is in just about everything!