One Water
One Water is a documentary by directors Sanjeev Chatterjee and Ali Habashi from the year 2008.
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" One Water " is a project of the University of Miami, where the ' School of Communication ', the ' College of Engineering ' and ' Frost School of Music were involved. Thematically, it's about the global water crisis.
The focus of the project was the film " One Water. " A first short version of the film was presented, among others, on the 12th and 13th session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development in New York, a more detailed feature version was completed in 2008 and had its premiere at the Miami International Film Festival.
The 68 -minute film was shot in 14 countries and has long passages of visual storytelling. About music and natural sounds of contents is told without words and supplemented by interviews with prominent people. We hear from people such as the Dalai Lama, Vandana Shiva, Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., Felipe Fernández- Armesto and Oscar Olivera. Among other things, Donna E. Shalala, President of the University of Miami, in the film appears as a speaker. The original soundtrack for " One Water " was recorded in Moscow by the Russian National Orchestra.
In 2006, " One Water " received great support from the ' John S. and James L. Knight Foundation '. The central idea of the project was to provoke other media participation on water around the world by means of a documentary. For this purpose, four films on the theme ' water problem ' in the countries of Bahrain, Colombia, India and South Africa were filmed in partnership with the Independent Television Service ( ITVS ) ( based in San Francisco), which should all be broadcast nationwide. These films were aired in these countries around the World Water Day (22 March 2009).
This collaboration has also launched the " International Water Journalism Web Site" ( 1h2o.org ), the multimedia posts on the topic of "water" of journalists from around the world spread. In spring 2009, an international TV version of the film was created in a script by Sanjeev Chatterjee of Hollywood star Martin Sheen is spoken.
On the subject
The documentary ' One Water ' deals with the global shortage of clean drinking water. The film shows how people around the world suffer dramatically due to drought, pollution and other factors from a lack of our most precious resource. It is clear that the problem is not easy to solve, though it would need a short-term, viable solution. The filmmakers also address the vitality of water on parallel mental and physical levels.
Water Crisis
A UN report from 2006 noted that " enough water for all the people there," that access is being hampered by mismanagement and corruption. The UN World Water Development Report ( Development Report, 2003) from the World Water Assessment Programme has noted that over the next 20 years, the amount of water that is available for every person who is expected to be reduced by 30 percent.
40 percent of the population of the world currently have too little fresh water for minimal hygiene requirements. More than 2.2 million people died in 2000, for reasons that had to do with the consumption of contaminated water or drought. In 2004, reported the English "UK charity WaterAid " that every 15 seconds a child dies from preventable, water -related diseases.