About this programme

7/8. The challenges and unpredictable situations faced by people living close to rivers. A man risks his life by crossing the Mekong in Laos during a flood, hoping to reach an island where he can fish for food, while two children and their father trek for nearly six days on a frozen river in the Himalayas. Elephants in Kenya help Samburu tribesmen find water, and villagers in Brazil devise an ingenious solution when the Rio Negro floods their homes.