Water For Justice

The Kolo community wins part of their on-going battle
	The destruction done in preparation for mining diamond affected a number of community and property Kolo. More than 400 hundred graves have been affected. Seven houses were cracked. More...
The International water day Celebrations
	Communities affected by the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) can be counted in their thousands. They have been affected in a number of different ways; some have lost land to the project, others residential homes, medicinal plants, communal assets, and their loved ones while they were resettled. The downstream communities lost a great deal too. Because of reduces water flows, they have lost sand, fish, caves, art work, wood, medicines and other resources. The downstream communities are those from Mokhotlong, Polihali dam; those who are on the downstream of the Mohale dam and the Katse dam. All these communities have rights and entitlements which they must be assisted to obtain. More...
Networking...
	TRC is part of the networking movement on the whole range of issues around the large dams. We network locally, regionally and internationally. Our networking NGO partners in the international arena include among others, International Rivers Network (IRN), in the USA, Campaign to Transform the World Bank, based in Italy, International Movement of Dam affected people and their Allies, currently organised from the USA, Narmada Bacheo - Save Narmada Valley in India. More...

Documentation

TRC has documented its successes and lessons in working on the LHWP issues. Documentation ranges from written to audio-visual materials. The following are but some of the written materials present at TRC: the "Since the Water Came" booklet, the research report on the LHWP impact on the Livelihoods of the affected people in Mohale area. Two other print products were published in 2005: " The Irony of the White Gold " (click here to download, pdf 322kb) and "Six Years after Resettlement".

In June 2006 we launched a book on the lessons learned from the LHWP. It is titled "On the wrong side of development". Click here for a free download (pdf, 1.4 Mb)

About the audio-visual materials present at TRC include among others: "Resettlement for Good or for Worse", "Land of our Ancestors", "LHWP has positive impacts on the lives of Basotho", and "Living with Dams - Re Phela le Matamo". Some of them were produced in English adressing a wide audience. Others were in Sesotho especially adressing the local audience.

TRC normally rents out these audio-visual materials to subscribed TRC Library members and also the Fieldworkers show these materials during their workshops.

The latest audio-visual production is a video called "We once lived there". It is a follow up of previous footage documenting the conditions of the resettled people. Today, six years after their move, they continue to fight for the promises of compensation and services made to them by the huge water proj ect. The 36 minute video and many others was produced by Don Edkins, with whom TRC has a long and successful relationship.