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Peace Messengers

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0:02 My name is Abdygani. I am working as a Water Master.
0:08 I am responsible for irrigation water for 114 hectares of land in crop and 128 farm enterprises.
0:12 Our first degree concerns:
0:14 our people grow cotton, corn, onion and potatoes.
0:21 This year we faced water shortages.
0:44 Our basic conflict is water-related disputes,
0:49 in this case peace messengers come and solve the problem between the parties to the conflict,
0:57 teach them to use water in turns, and explain how this can be done.
1:06 There is no division by ethnicity,
1:08 we don’t say you are Kyrgyz, you are Uzbek, so you do not have water, that’s not the case.
1:13 We all live together in the same village, on the same land, and we will be buried on the same land.
1:18 So we help each other on this land.
1:20 In the place where water flows, people live in peace.
1:27 If water is available for everyone then the peace will be for everyone.