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DamNation
2014 · Film · documentary · 87 min
Directed by Travis Rummel, Ben Knight
This powerful film odyssey across America explores the sea change in national attitude from pride in big dams as engineering wonders to the growing awareness that our own future is bound to the life and health of our rivers.
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Really great article. I love the weekend reading on HN.
This part of the article really caught my eye:
>>> Current “use it or lose it” water laws don’t allow farmers to sell any surplus allotment, so they end up growing as much alfalfa as they can and selling it on the global market. Peter Culp estimates that 50 billion gallons of water—1.5 pulse flows—is shipped to China each year in the form of alfalfa, and even more to Japan. An open water market would allow both cities and environmental groups to pay farmers far more than they currently make growing alfalfa. <<<
Terrible! The US West has been fighting water scarcity problems for 10+ years and we're exporting billions of gallons of water overseas?
There is also a new documentary out called DamNation which looks quite interesting. http://damnationfilm.com/