Delta Blues (In a Land of Cotton) is a 2001 documentary film.[1] The movie deals with the environmental problems emanating from the drying up of the Aral Sea, and the impact this has on political relationships in the Central Asian region (especially Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan). In particular, it focuses on the document Water-related vision for the Aral Sea basin for the year 2025[2] by UNESCO, as presented in 2000 at the 2nd World Water Forum in The Hague. This document has been criticized for setting unrealistic goals, and also, by focusing on the entire basin (south-west Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan), for implicitly giving up on the Aral Sea and the people living downstream in Karakalpakstan.[3]
| Delta Blues (In a Land of Cotton) | |
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| Directed by | M.E. van der Tuuk |
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| Cinematography | M.E. van der Tuuk |
| Edited by | M.E. van der Tuuk |
| Music by | M.E. van der Tuuk Bazargul Karimova |
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| Country | Netherlands |
| Language | English / Dutch / Russian |
Interviewees
edit- Oral Ataniyazova (foundation Perzent, Nukus)[4]
- Yusup Kamalov (Union for Defence of the Aral Sea and Amudarya river (UDASA), Nukus)[5]
- Meryem Aslan (Oxfam Novib, The Hague)
- Max Spoor (Institute of Social Studies, The Hague)
- Ian Small (Médecins Sans Frontières, Nukus)
- Scott O'Connor (Central Asia Free Exchange)
- Sagitzjan Aitzjanov (Central Asia Free Exchange, Muynak)
- Frits Verhoog (UNESCO, Paris)
- Rashid Koshekov (Ministry of Water, Karakalpakstan)
- Bakhtiyar Zhollybekov (Tashkent Agrarian University, Nukus)[6]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Delta Blues (in a land of cotton). YouTube.
- ^ http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001262/126259mo.pdf Water-related vision for the Aral Sea basin for the year 2025
- ^ "Indymedia NL (Nederland) - UNESCO promotes unsustainable development in Central Asia".
- ^ "Perzent--Karakalpak Center for Reproductive Health and Environment". Archived from the original on 2013-04-14. Retrieved 2009-03-23.
- ^ "www.udasa.org - the aral sea crisis". Archived from the original on 2017-05-12. Retrieved 2009-03-23.
- ^ "Water Actions - Uzbekistan - ADB.org". Archived from the original on 2009-10-12. Retrieved 2009-03-23.
External links
edit- Official site of the documentary film Delta Blues
- Trailer of the documentary film Delta Blues
- UNESCO's Water-related vision for the Aral Sea basin for the year 2025, as presented in March 2000 at the 2nd World Water Forum in The Hague
- Article on UNESCO's Water Related Vision for the Aral Sea Basin