Great Fergana Canal

Usman Yusupov, the First Secretary of Central Asian Committee of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan, announced that Soviet villages would no longer have a hauz, where drinking water had worms, but would instead have more efficient drainage canals that would prosper the region.

[2] A negative ecological change caused by the Great Fergana Canal created was the desiccation of the Aral Sea as a result of poor water management and overuse.

[1] This irrigation project successfully resulted in massive crop production and led to population increase in the Central Asian region due to industrial settlement in the valley.

[1] As of 2008 the Southern Fergana Canal was undergoing technical and infrastructure repair from deterioration in efforts to conserve water from poor distribution and retention.

The script is written as a triptych and begins with an introduction of the violent sacking of Urgench during the 14th century, the second section portrays the riots and the struggle for water access in the valley, and ends with the construction of the canal.