One water

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Movie
Original title One water
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2008
length 68 minutes
Rod
Director Sanjeev Chatterjee
Ali Habashi
script Sanjeev Chatterjee
production Sanjeev Chatterjee
music Thomas M. Sleeper
cut Ali Habashi

One Water is a documentary of directors Sanjeev Chatterjee and Ali Habashi from 2008 onwards.

To the movie

“One Water” is a project by the University of Miami , in which the School of Communication, the College of Engineering and the Frost School of Music were involved. The topic is the global drinking water crisis.

The focus of the project was the film "One Water." A first short version of the film was presented at the 12th and 13th session of the UN Commission for 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 features long passages of visual storytelling. The content is told without words using music and natural sounds and supplemented by interviews with prominent people. Personalities such as the Dalai Lama , Vandana Shiva , Robert Francis Kennedy junior , Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Oscar Olivera have their say . Donna E. Shalala, president of the University of Miami, appears as a speaker in the film. The original score 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 be able to provoke further media participation on the topic of water all over the world by means of a documentary film. To this end, in partnership with Independent Television Service (ITVS) (based in San Francisco ), four films on the subject of 'The problem of water' were shot in Bahrain , Colombia , India and South Africa , each of which was to be broadcast nationwide. These films were broadcast in these countries around World Water Day (March 22, 2009).

This collaboration also launched the International Water Journalism Website (1h2o.org), which disseminates multimedia articles on the subject of “water” from journalists around the world. In the spring of 2009, an international TV version of the film was produced in which a script by Sanjeev Chatterjee is spoken by Hollywood star Martin Sheen .

On the subject

The documentary One Water addresses the global shortage of clean drinking water. The film shows how people around the world suffer dramatically from a shortage of our most precious resource due to drought , pollution and other factors. It becomes clear that the problem is not easy to solve, although a short-term, workable solution would be needed. The filmmakers also address the vitality of water on parallel mental and physical levels.

Water crisis

A UN report from 2006 found that "there is enough water for everyone", but that access is hindered by mismanagement and corruption. The UN World Water Development Report (WWDR, ​​2003) from the World Water Assessment Program indicated that over the next 20 years the amount of water available to everyone is expected to be reduced by 30 percent.

40 percent of the world's inhabitants currently have too little fresh water for minimal hygiene requirements. More than 2.2 million people died in 2000 from reasons related to the consumption of contaminated water or drought. In 2004, the UK charity WaterAid reported that every 15 seconds a child dies of preventable, water-related diseases.

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