Episode 7 : Rivers – Friend and Foe

First aired on Thursday 24 February 2011. Topics include:

• Traversing the Mekong's cataracts during the monsoon
• A winter trek to school along the frozen Zanskar River
• Icebreaking with dynamite on the Rideau River in Ottawa
• Moving a house from a collapsing river bank in Bangladesh
• Preparing for the annual flood on Brazil's Rio Negro
• Fishing on the edge of Victoria Falls
• Samburu people tracking elephants to locate water below a dry river bed in northern Kenya
• Plastering the mud-walled mosque of Djenné
• The living bridges of Meghalaya

Behind the Lens: Traversing the Mekong's cataracts during the monso