Water

Along the west coast of Aceh Province in Indonesia, where the 2004 tsunami wiped out entire communities, the lush landscape has revived, new villages have been built, and farmers are back on the land, planting crops again in rehabilitated fields.

This film tells the story of Aceh’s farmers who are leading the rehabilitation of irrigation systems covering over 50,000 hectares of rice fields in the first large scale community-centered irrigation project in Aceh. It shows how the project has strengthened over 450 water users associations, built back 120 kilometers of new canals, and is expected to raise rice production by an estimated 50,000 metric tons a year.

• Indonesia Water Action: Farmers Rebuild Aceh’s Irrigation
• Indonesia Water Action: Rebuilding Aceh's Water Infrastructure Must Involve Everyone
• News release: Farmers Return to Their Land in Aceh and Nias