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Title:

The Mercy of nature [videorecording] / produced by KTEH/San Jose and Trans Pacific Television.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Publisher:

Home Vision Cinema :

Copyright Date:

1997

Description:

1 videocassette (55 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.

Subject:

Water-supply--Central Valley--Central Valley--History.
Water resources development--Central Valley--Central Valley--History.
Irrigation--Central Valley--Central Valley--History.
Irrigation farming--Central Valley--Central Valley--History.
Agriculture--Central Valley--Central Valley--History.
Agricultural industries--Central Valley--Central Valley--History.
Water resources development--West (U.S.)--History.
Central Valley (Calif.)--History.
Central Valley (Calif.)--Environmental conditions.
Documentary films.
Films for the hearing impaired

Other Authors:

Else, Jon.
Woodard, Alfre, 1953-
Reisner, Marc Cadillac desert.
KTEH-TV (Television station : San Jose, Calif.)
Trans Pacific Television.
Public Media Video (Firm)
Home Vision (Firm)

Other Titles:

Cadillac desert (Television program)

Notes:

Narrator: Alfe Woodard. Adapted from Marc Reisner's Cadillac desert.

Summary:

Cadillac Desert relates the story of the epic quest for water and the role it has played in the transformation of the American West. This third episode traces the fierce political and environmental battles that raged around the transformation of California's Central Valley from semiarid desert into the most productive and environmentally altered agricultural region in global history. It illustrates the role that presidents, governor, and giant agri-business companies have played in the ebb and flow of water. The program then follows the recent trend in which water is diverted away from agriculture and toward cities and wildlife.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)37899770

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)