Documentaries
In 1999 EMF started making documentaries as a supporting activity, to help raise public awareness to the issues it was addressing. Working together with professional filmmakers, EMF has meanwhile researched and produced documentaries on water, poverty and microfinance.
The Blue Gold
A 4-part TV documentary series Het Blauwe Goud (The Blue Gold) on the problems and solutions to freshwater shortages in the developing world was broadcast on Dutch television by the NCRV in June/July 2008. Besides taking the initiative for the series, EMF also selected the projects and conducted an extensive interview with the Crown Prince Willem-Alexander of The Netherlands. The series featured the following countries and organisations:
- Kenia (Amref/Flying Doctors)
- India and Sri Lanka (Clean Water Now!)
- Gambia (Acqua Aero Water Systems)
- Cambodia (WaterRight)
- Vietnam (Vitens/Evides and the Dutch Government)
- Nigeria (The Association of Water Boards (UVW))
- Nicaragua (Friesland Foods)
- Kenia (ISCOM and SNS Waterfund)
The Blue Gold Part 1
The Blue Gold Part 2
The Blue Gold Part 3
The Blue Gold Part 4A Dollar A Day
A Dollar A Day, a 6-part series produced in cooperation with EMF Films BV was broadcast by RVU on Dutch television in 2005 (August 31, September 7, 14, 21, 28 and October 5) by RVU (www.eendollarperdag.tv).
Poverty
The 2005 United Nations Year of Microfinance provided a context for EMF's 4-part documentary on poverty that was shown on Dutch television by AVRO in its program "Twee Vandaag” in August 2005. It featured the following countries and companies:
- Nigeria (Heineken)
- Surinam (Waterleidingbedrijf Amsterdam)
- India (DSM/Unilever)
- Mozambique (Vitens)
- Malawi (TNT)
- Peru (Rabobank/Oikocredit)
Water, The Drop Of Life
Water, The Drop Of Life is a 6-part international documentary on water problems and possible solutions, was produced by EMF in cooperation with the Dutch television producer Swynk. The first comprehensive screening of the series took place at the start of the World Water Forum and ministerial conference in the Hague in 2000. In the meantime, the documentary has been screened in 60 countries, including the United States by Public Broadcasting Systems (PBS).
Blog
On May 12th the first Sujol plant was opened officially. This plant produces 200 liters an hours. The water quality is within Bangladeshi standards. The plant reduces Salinity up till 97% and Arsenic from 370 ppm to 30 ppm. Sujol water taste nearly as good as mineral water and beats the taste of water treated by comparable alternatives easily.
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