Projects

Adapting to Scarcity is a community water rights and media empowerment project designed to support citizen movements for environmental justice and access to clean water in the greater Guadalajara area, and to enhance their impact, visibility and synergy with other water rights movements in the world.

Our work empowers local communities to document and share their movements to protect watersheds and implement sustainable long term access to clean water.

Adapting to Scarcity is based in the Bay Area and Guadalajara, Mexico. The project is fiscally sponsored by Media Alliance.

Our recent accomplishments:

• Adapting to Scarcity taught video workshops to over 60 youth in Guadalajara this past year.
• Ten short documentaries were successfully created by the high school and college students.
• These videos are available online, and they were shown in Guadalajara and El Salto, bringing water contamination issues to the city and to the affected communities
• We (A2S) presented a 12 minute video called "Arriving at Consciousness" at the Agua, Ríos, y Pueblos Conference presenting the youth's videos and perspectives from interviews
• After helping IMDEC and the youth of La Huizachera compile and present their photo exposition in Guadalajara and the surrounding communities, we organized a photo exhibit in San Francisco, CA.
• We conducted a ten day tour of the Santiago watershed with media, IMDEC employees, and other water rights activists to connect the movements.  A multimedia map is now in production.
• Our full length documentary, "Como Corre el Agua" (How the Water Flows) is finished being filmed and now in the editing and production stage.  

Please consider supporting the Adapting to Scarcity project. Your donation will go a long way in helping to produce our documentary and use it as a tool to make positive change for the communities affected by water contamination.