What does the farm water remind you of in the oasis?

August 25th 2023
Video
Region
Morocco
Researcher
Formats
Interview
Site-specific
Soundscape
Disciplines
Field recording
Soundscape studies
Ecology
Themes
Climate change
Climate crisis

In the middle of summer climate in the south Sahara Morocco, the Oasis faces extreme high temperatures and water scarcity increases

To pump water into the farm site of Joudour Sahara in M’Hamid El Ghizlane , the lead farmer Habib starts the pump for the students Ibtissem, Fatima, Arwah, Souad, Khadijah to listen to and record in an early evening.  

What does the farm water remind them of in the Oasis? At first their answers are shy and uncomfortable responding , I don’t know. 
It is like a river to them. The Draa River route runs through the M’Hamid Oasis and for several decades has not only been seasonally dry but a continual dry stone bed today. The water pumped reminds them of a river and a green Oasis as they grow up in a drying oasis.