Delta Blues (documentary film)

Delta Blues subtitled In a Land of Cotton is a documentary film shot in 2000. 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 Waterrelated vision for the Aral Sea basin for the year 2025 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 southwest Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, for implicitly giving up on the Aral Sea and the people living downstream in Karakalpakstan.

Whereas in most debates about accountability for water use, privatization is seenby whom? as the enemy of the people dependent on the water, many NGOs in this former Soviet region claim instead that the source of the waterrelated problems lies in the irresponsible use of water, mainly by the agricultural sector which is still predominantly owned by the state. Manywho? claim that this can only be changed by changing the soviet paradigm, namely by putting a price tag on water the more water one uses andor pollutes, the more one should pay.

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