Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Written on water / a film by Merri Lisa Trigilio ; a Deep Time Media production ; produced and directed by Merri Lisa Trigilio ; co-produced by Bobbie Baird and Kaitlin Whitman.

Publisher, Date:

[Corte Madera, California] : Green Planet Films, [2016?]

Description:

1 videodisc (57 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

DVD video 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

widescreen

NTSC

video file DVD video region 0

Summary:

Focuses on the Ogallala Aquifer and examines the conflicts, politics, economics and groundwater depletion in the High Plains region. Farmers and communities survive on the precious waters of the Aquifer, yet it is being depleted at alarming rates. The film features the human aspect of the problem, looking at irrigation farmers in West Texas. The story highlights the tension between property rights advocates and state-mandated pumping limits.

Subjects:

Aquifers -- Texas, West.

Water-supply -- Texas, West.

Groundwater -- Texas, West.

Irrigation farming -- Environmental aspects -- Texas, West.

Water use -- Law and legislation -- Texas, West.

Ogallala Aquifer.

Genre:

Environmental films.

Documentary films.

Feature films.

Nonfiction films.