Running Out of Water: Inside Story

The world is running out of water. Around 4000 children die every day due to water shortages - and it is going to get worse. That is the warning from the World Water Forum being held in Istanbul this week. Experts have warned that increases in population and climate change, demands for more food, and increased domestic and industrial water use are depleting the planet's freshwater supply at an unsustainable rate.

This episode of Inside Story aired from Wednesday, March 18, 2009. It features interviews with Ger Bergkamp, the director general of the World Water Council, Melanie Nakagawa, the director of the Natural Resource Defence Council's "Global Safe Water Project" and Mark Zeitoun, a senior lecturer at the University of East Anglia's School of International Development.