{"id":7925,"date":"2017-10-26T11:02:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T18:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myuctv.tv\/?p=7925"},"modified":"2017-10-26T11:02:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T18:02:19","slug":"the-water-wars-have-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/uctv\/the-water-wars-have-begun\/","title":{"rendered":"The Water Wars Have Begun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/shows\/Water-Power-Discussion-of-Documentary-32822\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/images\/\/thumbnails\/32822.jpg\" alt=\"32822\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><\/a>The Water Wars are coming &#8211; and according to Executive Producer Lynne Kirby, they&#8217;re already here.<\/p>\n<p>Concerned about what her daughter would drink in the years ahead, Kirby became passionate about water conservation issues. She knew water was going to be a big issue in the decades to come &#8211; that water would be the &#8220;oil&#8221; of the 21st century. <\/p>\n<p>She pitched the idea of making a documentary of the coming water wars to Alex Gibney, an investigative documentary filmmaker of films about Scientology, WikiLeaks, Enron and others. According to Kirby, Gibney&#8217;s the kind of guy who says, <i>I&#8217;m coming after you&#8230; and you&#8217;re going down&#8230; and we&#8217;re going to peel back the onion and expose you.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Gibney then approached National Geographic who had been looking for a water project and the rest is history. <i>Water &#038; Power: A California Heist<\/i> unfolds like a real-life version of the 1974 film noir <i>Chinatown<\/i> and uncovers the ruthless exploits of California&#8217;s notorious water barons, who profit off the state&#8217;s resources while everyday citizens endure a debilitating water crisis. <\/p>\n<p>Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/shows\/Water-Power-Discussion-of-Documentary-32822\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Water &#038; Power: Discussion of Documentary<\/a> with host and UCSB Professor of Film &#038; Media Studies, Constance Penley, and Executive Producer Lynne Kirby to hear more behind-the-scenes stories about this incredible documentary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Water Wars are coming &#8211; and according to Executive Producer Lynne Kirby, they&#8217;re already here. Concerned about what her daughter would drink in the years ahead, Kirby became passionate about water conservation issues. She knew water was going to be a big issue in the decades to come &#8211; that water would be the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,27,28,64,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}