Delta Blues (film) explained

Delta Blues (In a Land of Cotton)
Director:	M.E. van der Tuuk
Music:	M.E. van der Tuuk Bazargul Karimova
Cinematography:	M.E. van der Tuuk
Editing:	M.E. van der Tuuk
Country:	Netherlands
Language:	English / Dutch / Russian

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]

Interviewees

• 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

• Water privatization
• Externality
• Soviet Union
• Central Asia
• Karakalpakstan

External links

• 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

Notes and References

1. Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Delta Blues (in a land of cotton) . YouTube.
2. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001262/126259mo.pdf Water-related vision for the Aral Sea basin for the year 2025
3. Web site: Indymedia NL (Nederland) - UNESCO promotes unsustainable development in Central Asia.
4. Web site: Perzent--Karakalpak Center for Reproductive Health and Environment . 2009-03-23 . https://archive.today/20130414112657/http://www.civilsocietyinternational.org/nisorgs/uzbek/perzent.htm . 2013-04-14 . dead .
5. Web site: www.udasa.org - the aral sea crisis . 2009-03-23 . 2017-05-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170512170658/http://www.udasa.org/ . dead .
6. Web site: Water Actions - Uzbekistan - ADB.org . 2009-03-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20091012043044/http://www.adb.org/water/actions/uzb/farmers-scientists.asp . 2009-10-12 . dead .