VSO Bangladesh working on awareness raising upon water scarcity from dinajpur Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 2 min 14 sec
✓ Published: 03-Apr-2013

Description:
International volunteer Janneke Snijders works with GBK in Dinajpur to raise the awareness of the local community on water scarcity. It is a challenge to make people aware that the usual way of rice production is unsustainable, since there lacks sufficient water for irrgation of the paddies. The introduction of drought tolerant rice seeds might help to deal with the waterscarcity, how ever, on the long run might still be insufficient. It will take some time for the community to become aware of t