(12 May 2025)
NIGERIA DRYING RIVERS
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Sokoto, Nigeria – 25 February 2025
1. Drone shot of a drying lake ++MUTE++
2. Wide of an almost dry lake
3. Various of a dry river
4. Various of a farmer trying to till the soil
5. Various of a corn plantation that is drying up due to lack of water
6. Close of leeks
7. SOUNDBITE: (Hausa) Nasiru Bello, farmer:
"All these things are a result of climate change, because in the previous years we didn’t know the dryness of rivers like that but now due to climate change they are dry. Surely, all the people around there, some of them counted the loss some years back when the rivers dried because they don’t have any means of irrigation apart from the river."
8. Various of Nasiru Bello planting leeks
9. SOUNDBITE: (Hausa) Nasiru Bello, farmer:
"I am facing a lot of difficulties because I’m not using the river. It’s a well and sometimes you can dig a well but it dries up while you’re using it. You have to dig another one and to dig another is not easy because you have to spend money on any well that you are going to dig. And you don’t have the money to charge generators (to power the well) every year, you will be managing the ones you have until you get the money to buy another one. If you don’t, you will continue to manage it."
10. Mid of Nasiru Bello switching on his generator for irrigation
11. Various of irrigation on Nasiru Bello’s farm
12. SOUNDBITE: (Hausa) Umoru Muazu, farmer:
"The year we started, we had enough water but now there is no water. Therefore, we have to dig a well in order to get water to continue to irrigate, except in the rainy season. In the rainy season, we get water, but not now since the water withdrew, and before it didn’t dry as early as this, but now it does. We must dig a well to complete our work."
13. Various of Umoru Muazu’s workers preparing for irrigation from a dirty lake
14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr. Isa Yusuf-Sokoto, environmentalist, Sokoto’s Umaru Ali Shinkafi Polytechnic:
"The drying of rivers, lakes, streams in recent decades is associated to climate change that has come to stay. This is coupled with the precarious nature of Sokoto State being semi-arid region whereby desertification and other related climatic problems have been bedeviling the area. So this is why we’re battling with drought, which the farmers are now complaining."
15. Mid of a farmer irrigating his crops
16. Various of farm land
17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr. Isa Yusuf-Sokoto, environmentalist, Sokoto’s Umaru Ali Shinkafi Polytechnic:
"If there is no intervention to farmers and this intervention has to be an emergency one, there will virtually be a crisis, food crisis will occur, water crisis will also come up, and even health crisis can come up because all these are sons and daughters that could be given birth by climate change crisis."
18. Mid of a drying lake
19. Drone shot of a drying lake ++MUTE++
20. Drone shot of a farmer planting leeks ++MUTE++
STORYLINE:
LEADIN:
Farmers in Nigeria are finding it increasingly difficult to get enough water for their crops.
Riverbeds have started to run dry leading some to have no choice but to pump for groundwater.
The finger is pointed firmly at climate change, with conservationists warning that food could become scarce if measures are not urgently put in place to help the farmers irrigate their land.
STORYLINE:
The ground is cracked and dry – once a lake and a river had been here.
These are the conditions for farmers in Nigeria and many believe climate change is to blame.
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