00:01Many people, especially women in Burkina Faso, have to walk several kilometers every day to fetch water.
00:08Here in the Museum of Water in Saba, visitors symbolically walk a part of that distance
00:13and get a sense of what this daily journey means.
00:17Physical effort and exhaustion.
00:20Alasan Samura has created the Museum of Water to explore it from various perspectives,
00:25as a resource, as part of cultural heritage, and as the base of a healthy environment.
00:31Today, he's invited artists and guests to help plant a thousand trees on the Museum grounds.
00:38There is no water, there is no water.
00:43But when we make the maximum water, we create a micro climate where the water will fall.
00:50So that's a bit of a relationship that the Museum of Water tries to understand our people.
00:54We are not only a museum of exhibitions.
00:58But we work on climate change in relation to climate change,
01:03the water, the environment, the biodiversity, the ecosystem.
01:07The artists taking part hope to set an example, starting with small actions anyone can take.
01:35The next day, Alasan Samura uses a smart, low-tech solution to protect the freshly planted trees from being destroyed,
01:43by grazing animals.
01:46Reused tires.
01:49We don't have the big way to buy the green trees.
01:51The green trees are expensive.
01:54So we take the cities in the city,
01:56which are already used,
01:58which we will try to re-use,
01:59which will give them a second chance.
02:01A solar-powered borehole on the grounds allows the Museum to irrigate the young trees year-round,
02:08while also supplying water to 200 people living nearby.
02:12The Museum also educates children about important water bodies and rivers on the continent.
02:18It is represented here on the tower.
02:21It has a total of 414 feet.
02:24But things take a somber turn.
02:27This installation shows how the Mediterranean Sea has become a mass grave for many young Africans,
02:32who left their communities in search of a better life in Europe.
02:35We tried to make a very image image of this picture here,
02:40showing the tomb of the young people.
02:42The French d'âge is the African youth.
02:47The most young is 30 years old,
02:49the most young is 19 years old.
02:51So it's the cream of the youth with their tomb here,
02:54which we tried to neutralize.
02:55And the pirogue has chaviré.
02:58So we tried to shock the youth in saying
03:01that water is a factor of death for you.
03:08Water also has a cultural dimension here.
03:12Ngari Loh is a traditional storyteller,
03:14a so-called griot from Senegal.
03:23In my songs, we express it every year.
03:28The music of things, the disease, the disease, the disease, the disease,
03:33the disease, the disease.
03:33Everything that turns around us interests us.
03:39This space was created to accessibly show the importance of water
03:43and the ecosystems and communities depending on it.
03:47A message that is getting more and more important.
03:50This semi-arid region sees fewer showers and more storms,
03:54so water is more precious than ever.
