Arcadia
The Watering of California's Central Valley
The agricultural landscape of California was based on a complex system of aqueducts that created the illusion of “normal” climatic variation.
The agricultural landscape of California was based on a complex system of aqueducts that created the illusion of “normal” climatic variation.
The film examines the social and ecological consequences of the Turkey’s South-East-Anatolia-Project (GAP), designed to enable energy production and irrigation on a huge scale.
Building on Water focusses on the relationship between early modern agriculture and water management in Europe, and the history of Venetian hydraulic management.
Epidemic yellow fever plagued New Orleans due to a series of environmental and demographic changes enabled by the rise of sugar production and urban development.