Watershed: Exploring a New Water Ethic for the New West

Watershed: Exploring a New Water Ethic for the New West

Exploring a New Water Ethic for the New West

2012 en 56 minutes

Rating: 6

Plot

As the most dammed, dibbed, and diverted river in the world struggles to support thirty million people and the peace-keeping agreement known as the Colorado River Pact reaches its limits, WATERSHED introduces hope. Can we meet the needs of a growing population in the face of rising temperatures and lower rainfall in an already arid land? Can we find harmony amongst the competing interests of cities, agriculture, industry, recreation, wildlife, and indigenous communities with rights to the water? Sweeping through seven U.S. and two Mexican states, the Colorado River is a lifeline to expanding populations and booming urban centers that demand water for drinking, sanitation and energy generation. And with 70% of the rivers’ water supporting agriculture, the river already runs dry before it reaches its natural end at the Gulf of California. Unless action is taken, the river will continue its retreat – a potentially catastrophic scenario for the millions who depend on it.

Trailer

Trailer's not available.

Cast

Robert Redford

Robert Redford

Narrator (voice)

Similar Movies

Microcosmos

Microcosmos

fr

September 6, 1996

Denial

Denial

en

June 5, 2016

Voices From the Landscape

Voices From the Landscape

en

January 1, 1976

Chernobyl's Café

Chernobyl's Café

en

September 21, 2016

March of the Penguins

March of the Penguins

fr

January 26, 2005

Snake Man

Snake Man

fr

January 22, 2014

Castro's Secret Reef

Castro's Secret Reef

en

January 1, 2016

Convoque

Convoque

es

Invalid date

Apocalypse, Man

Apocalypse, Man

en

January 14, 2014

Stadt, Land, Fuchs!

Stadt, Land, Fuchs!

de

November 11, 2019

Bears In Our National Parks

Bears In Our National Parks

en

February 4, 2008

White Earth

White Earth

en

January 30, 2015

The Catastrophe Garden

The Catastrophe Garden

en

April 1, 2022

Broken Fall (Organic)

Broken Fall (Organic)

en

February 23, 1971

An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth

en

May 24, 2006

Empty Oceans, Empty Nets

Empty Oceans, Empty Nets

en

April 22, 2002