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)
Directed byM.E. van der Tuuk
Starring
  • Oral Ataniyazova
  • Yusup Kamalov
  • Meryem Aslan
  • Max Spoor
  • Ian Small
  • Scott O'Connor
  • Sagitzjan Aitzjanov
  • Frits Verhoog
  • Rashid Koshekov
  • Bakhtiyar Zhollybekov
CinematographyM.E. van der Tuuk
Edited byM.E. van der Tuuk
Music byM.E. van der Tuuk
Bazargul Karimova
Release date
  • 2001 (2001)
CountryNetherlands
LanguageEnglish / Dutch / Russian

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  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. ^ "Indymedia NL (Nederland) - UNESCO promotes unsustainable development in Central Asia".
  4. ^ "Perzent--Karakalpak Center for Reproductive Health and Environment". Archived from the original on 2013-04-14. Retrieved 2009-03-23.
  5. ^ "www.udasa.org - the aral sea crisis". Archived from the original on 2017-05-12. Retrieved 2009-03-23.
  6. ^ "Water Actions - Uzbekistan - ADB.org". Archived from the original on 2009-10-12. Retrieved 2009-03-23.
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