The Fight for California's Fresh Water: America's Water Crisis (Part 3/3)

In the Golden State of California, freshwater in the San Joaquin Valley is on the brink of disappearance. Governor Jerry Brown's proposal for a peripheral canal is reigniting centuries-old battles over water rights, and environmentalists, citizens, and billionaires alike are all vying for control over California's water supply.

In the final episode of a three part series, Emerson Rosenthal gets his inner Erin Brockovich on as he investigates a water war that could potentially destroy access to California's drinking water for millions. Welcome to California, ground zero of America's water crisis.

Watch parts 1 and 2 here:
New York: http://bit.ly/Water-Crisis-1
Florida: http://bit.ly/Water-Crisis-2

Check out more VICE documentaries: http://bit.ly/VICE-Documentaries

Check out our full video catalog: http://www.youtube.com/user/vice/videos
Videos, daily editorial and more: http://vice.com
Like VICE on Facebook: http://fb.com/vice
Follow VICE on Twitter: http://twitter.com/vice
Read our tumblr: http://vicemag.tumblr.com

• Category

  Entertainment

[Tony Blair]

After watching these videos , i have realised , us humans are real bastards to mother nature.

[SirVixIsVexed]

This part of the video does a good job showing, although it is never spoken, that people who do corrupt things for money aren't confined to the corporate world, but exist in government too. A society where people are willing to take bribes to do detrimental things is going to have misbehaving corporations and misbehaving governments. What needs to change is to have light shed on the abundant methods of making money honestly, and there will be less crooked cops, gov't officials, and corporations.

[Singh Jobim]

Good reporting. Loved all 3 parts. I know the Southwest and Midwest are also in trouble, would have liked to see coverage of their situation.

[MachNetwork]

5:51 Penis.

[cityofplant]

These vice guys are so badass!

[Colin R]

forget about it jake it's chinatown.

[wolverines427]

i know. i wish...

[usseg]

It wouldn't solve anything

[wolverines427]

damn it.....we should go back to past and tell them problems from future.

[SliSteph22]

The question really is who is trying to play god....WHO IS IT? I thought India had a bad water problem...the truth is that it's everywhere, and people need to wake up, get into these companies without them knowing and change the shit that is going down. I guess the best way of changing it is making it known, getting in there and doing the work yourself. If we could all just say good bye to money..before we join the fish.