Cadillac Desert - 2 An American Nile (4 of 6)

Cadillac Desert water and the transformation of nature (1997) was an American documentary series in four parts water, money, politics, and the transformation of nature. The film traces the growth of a great American city in the western desert. It has brought wealth and inheritance of the risk created in the U.S. and abroad. The first three episodes are on the book by Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert (1986) that appears in the history of water use and abuse of AmericanWest. It explores the triumph and disaster, heroism and intrigue, and rivalry and bed partners, to declare that this little-known chapter in American history. The latest episode is the book by Sandra Postel, Last Oasis (1992), which examines the global impact of technologies and strategies that came from America's handling of water, shows elaborate, because it protects the need for conservation practices that water created the earth for the next century. According to An American Nilethe Colorado River, an excellent symbol of the folly of an economic and environmental disaster - or the perfection of an ideal? They are their dams technological hubris gone mad - or a lifeline for millions of Americans living in the Southwest? An American Nile, the second part of the series DESERT Cadillac tells the story of how the Colorado were the most controlled, litigated, domesticated, regulated and distributed over the flow of world history. Rich in archival material and interviews withthe ...

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