The deep wells of the Borana, Ethiopia (taken from the TV-doc. "A Journey in the history of water".

The deep wells of the Borana people in southern Ethiopia must be one of the best examples that can be used to illustrate how the character of a particular water resource and traditional water exploitation technology can be interlinked and impacted by each other. This clip is filmed inside one of the unique wells of the Borana. These wells have for centuries provided water for a huge number of cattle, goats and people during the long dry season Due to the crucial role of this human chain in lifting up the water that the whole society depends upon, cooperation has been an absolute necessity. The clip also addresses the overriding and fundamental question of the relationships between water ecology or waterscapes and political and economic institutions, a topic I later have examined in different water-society relations many places in the world. This scene is taken from the documentary "A Journey in the history of water", made in cooperation with NRK. The film has been shown in about 150 countries and was bought by among others the National Geographic, Discovery and Al Arabiya networks. See also my book on the Nile on which the TV-series "The Nile Quest" is based: "The Nile. History's Greatest River", for more information, see https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/nile-97.... This book is also translated into German, Dutch, Chinese, and will soon be published and translated into Italian, Serbian, and Arabic. "Water and Society, Changing Perception on Societal and Historical developments", both London: Bloomsbury), https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/water-a... discusses the water-society question in more general and global perspectives. See also “The River Nile in the Age of the British. Political Ecology and the Quest for Economic Power” (translated into Arabic in 2018). For more information, see https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/river-n... ://www.bloomsbury.com/us/nile-9780755616794/ For information about my other books on water and development in general, see https://terjetvedt.w.uib.no/books/.