National Geographic: Water and Power - California Heist (2017) *Amazon Prime Video

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[know.your.why]

Emmy award-winning director Marina Zenovich's Water & Power: A California Heist, a National Geographic documentary film executive produced by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney, unfolds like a real-life version of the 1974 film noir "Chinatown," uncovering the exploits of California's notorious water barons, who profit off the state's resources while citizens endure a debilitating water crisis.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: california; corruption; crime; crisis; documentary; water

[know.your.why]

This 2017 documentary is just pointing out what everyone now knows. I thought it was pretty intense just the fact that NG went to the trouble of making a full length film. $5 on AP. >>If anyone can find this somewhere thats free, please post a link. TY. *Click on image to go to AP*

[Deaf Smith]

Does the documentary include Kalifornee policy of draining lakes to protect non native minnows?

[rlmorel]

National Geographic went far Left decades ago. That they would put this on the backs of “evil water barons” instead of having responsible leadership in government for many decades that would do their job and provide clean water to an ever growing population of California citizens as was their duty, they instead cozied up to environmentalists who cared nothing about water, power, transportation, or anything else and we now have what is expected today.

I fully believe that the embryonic nuclear SMR (Small Water Reactor) industry coupled with desalination plants would be the answer to the water problem in California, but I fully expect the Environmentalists will fight that.

The Israelis can do that, but we cannot.

[Carry_Okie]

For a definitive read on the racket that was the California Water Project, there is an outstanding and lengthy oral history interview with Pat Brown at the Bancroft Library.

[Inyo-Mono]

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