Water and Power

Water and Power is a 1989 experimental documentary film by Pat O'Neill.

Summary
A reflection between nature and man in Los Angeles about the city's surroundings' desertification due to enormous water consumption.

Reception
It won the Documentary Grand Jury Prize at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival. It was selected to the United States National Film Registry in 2009 as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Water and Power was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009 in conjunction with Pat O'Neill.