Green Mirage

Directed by Egyptian Film Maker Nadia Kamel and Tunisian Geographer and Researcher Habib Ayeb, a documentary about the Demmer village in the southern Tunisia and its traditional water management.

The local population of the village of Demmer has been organized in a ‘communal’ system that guaranteed it a certain coherence and a ‘know-how’ of living together, that covered almost all aspects of life, from the rules of grazing and the conservation of resources, including management of alliances, marriage, heritage and conflict resolution. [...]
The set of traditional and artisanal rules, know-hows, techniques, technologies and practices that respect the environment and protect the biodiversity proved and guaranteed an indisputable durability.
[via The anthropo.scene | Jeremy Schmidt blog]