N.I.L.E. Looking Around the Future

Climate change, population growth, economic expansion - is humankind finding ways to manage them? A photojournalistic project about a key area for our future: The Nile Basin

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N.I.L.E. Looking Around the Future

<p>  </p> <p> <strong>N.I.L.E.</strong></p> <p> is a journalistic project about a part of the world where the importance of a sustainable relationship between the human being and his environment is clear.</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Aan0749" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/3668/AAN0749.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> <strong>Eleven countries</strong>, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda, over 200 milion people, share the water of the longest river in the world, the Nile, and its tributaries.</p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Aan0347" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/3669/AAN0347.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <strong>The international treaties</strong> that rule the use of the Nile water were signed  in the fifties under the sovereignty of the British Empire. The right of use of the Nile water were assigned mainly to Egypt and Sudan. At the time Egypt had more than one third of the population of the area. Today it has less than one quarter of the population.</p> <p>  </p> <p> This significant demographic change and the reduction of the available water caused by climate changes, make urgent  the research and testing  of new kinds of sustainable development and collaboration among countries that share this resource. </p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <strong>Why this reportage?</strong></p> <p>  </p> <p> It is necessary because there is plenty of  information about problems but a lack of attention on the ongoing search for solutions as carried out by NGO, UN and international organizations, researchers, scientists, workers, farmers: thousands of people who everyday manage the problems and look for viable ideas.</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Aan0541" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/3679/AAN0541.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> <strong>The purpose</strong> of this reportage is to have a clear picture of the present situation, show the positive ideas and examples and find out the best  practices of sustainable development and  international cooperation in the area. It will showcase experiences that can possibly be exported in other areas of the world. </p> <p> <img alt="Aan0764" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/3672/AAN0764.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> <strong>Energy production, irrigation, fishing, reforestation, combat of soil erosion,  coping with flood and  drought</strong> and, importantly, <strong>the  training of people: </strong>These will be the main fields of the reportage</p> <p> <img alt="Abn042" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/4003/ABN042.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> As the <strong>The Nile Basin</strong> is a very large region,  it requires that the project be divided into several independent reportages that  will give rise to separate exhibitions which will be gathered together in an final E-book  of photographs, interviews and short videos. <strong>2013</strong> has been declared <strong>International Year of Water Co-operation </strong>by the United Nations: this is therefore the right time to find out how things are going!</p> <p>  </p> <p> <strong>--- : --- : --- : --- : --- : --- : --- : --- : --- : --- : --- : ---</strong></p> <p>  </p> <p> <strong>I cambiamenti climatici</strong>, l’aumento della popolazione, la crescita economica, rendono sempre più urgente lo sperimentare nuove forme di sviluppo sostenibile, di ottimizzazione dell’uso delle risorse e di collaborazione tra paesi.</p> <p> <strong>Il  bacino del Nilo</strong> è  una delle zone del mondo dov’è più evidente la necessità di un’interazione sostenibile tra uomo e ambiente ed è una delle zone chiave per le organizzazioni non governative, le nazioni unite e le altre istituzioni internazionali che lavorano per migliorare il  rapporto tra uomo e ambiente.</p> <p> <strong>Le acque</strong> del Nilo, fiume più lungo del mondo, e dei suoi affluenti sono vitali per la sopravvivenza della popolazione di Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Sud Sudan  Tanzania and Uganda.</p> <p> <strong>I trattati internazionali</strong> che regolano i diritti di sfruttamento delle acque risalgono al tempo della decolonizzazione ed assegnano la stragrande maggioranza dei diritti all’Egitto seguito da Sudan.</p> <p> Rispetto ad allora è cambiata però la densità demografica del continente africano: l’Egitto nel 1960 da solo rappresentava un terzo della popolazione dei paesi dell’area. Oggi la sua popolazione è meno di un quarto.</p> <p> <strong>I cambiamenti climatici</strong> e il riscaldamento globale tendono a far diminuire l’acqua disponibile.</p> <p>  </p> <p> <strong>Lo scopo del reportage</strong> è avere una visione d’insieme dei progetti e delle idee migliori. Mettere insieme gli esempi positivi e rendere chiaro quali possono essere le idee per uno sviluppo sostenibile e di collaborazione tra i popoli dell’area che permetta il miglioramento delle condizioni dei vita senza compromettere l’ambiente. </p> <p>  </p> <p> <strong>Il Bacino del Nilo</strong> è un area molto estesa per cui il progetto sarà diviso in diversi reportage che , oltre a dare vita a mostre indipendenti, saranno riuniti in un E-book  finale fatto di fotografie, interviste e brevi filmati. <strong>Il 2013 </strong>è stato dichiarato dalle Nazioni UNite <strong>L'anno Internazionale della Cooperazione sull'acqua:  </strong>l'anno giusto per scoprire come stanno andando le cose!</p> <p> .</p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Bp00808" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/5151/BP00808.jpg"></p> <p>  </p>

Allocation of funds

<p> The <strong>Nile</strong> is a long river and this is therefore a wide project.  It needs to be carried out in stages and I need to finance the startup. First I will focus on the Lake Victoria basin and  the High Nile. 2013 is the <strong>International Year of Water Cooperation</strong> and I intend to have a show and an E-book with pictures, interviews and short films, ready for the International Water Week that will be in Stockholm at the end of August.</p> <p>  </p> <p> This is the forecast of main costs for two trips of about 20 days each. The first in Kenya and the second in Uganda and Rwanda</p> <p>  </p> <p> Flight to Nairobi ....700 </p> <p> Flight to Entebbe...900</p> <p> Car rental, subsistence and local transports ...1700</p> <p> KKBB fee 170</p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <strong>N.I.L.E.</strong>  To know we have to go</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Npv027" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/3673/NPV027.jpg"></p>

Rewards

€5

Many thanks for the donation from me and from all the people that are working for a better world

€20

Involvement, trough personal invitation by mail and social network activities, in the show inaugurations and in all future events about N.I.L.E

€35

Prior rewards plus one 20x30 signed professional print of a picture of your choice

€70

Prior rewards plus a N.I.L.E. calendar in A3 format with a picture of the project and a dedicated inscription

€100

Prior rewards plus your name in the final credit of the show and the E-book

€150

Involvement in the show inaugurations and in all future events about N.I.L.E. a 40x60 signed professional print on papyrus paper of a picture of your choice and your name in the final credit of the show and the e-book.

€250

The 150 euros rewards plus a dedicated small bottle of Nile spring water

€400

all previous rewards and a dedicated and "analogic" copy of the book with the whole reportage.

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