Projeto Caldeirão - A Solução Vinda do Homem

A curious short documentary that follows a successful irrigation enterprise that allowed a productive use of desert areas from Piauí in order to grow plantations and food, enhanced the quality of life of the peoples habitants, providing them work and sustain on fair conditions. The "Project Caldeirão" was an effort joint by Brazil and Israel governments, with the latter providing techniques and equipments to be used on desertic/rural areas to bring water to sustainable fields that weren't useable, in this case they used the waters from the Caldeirão river brook, that also had a water dam made in the 1940's.

Though the film only shows what's the project is about and how it works, without showing a criticism or telling us about some potential problems to come (if there were), it makes some of us wonder if the whole work was effective as they show it, if there was some discontinuation or changes in the following years (couldn't find anything on the net). But if it's exactly that progressive and interesting as it's shown, then it's one of the few times we can account that a certain political regime worked in the favor of a common cause. And that's awfully rare. 6/10.