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An epic have difficulty over land, normal water, and power is erupting in the American West and the halls of Washington, DC. It commenced whenever a 4,000-square-mile area of Az desert called Black color Mesa was divided between your Hopi and Navajo tribes. To the exterior world, it was a land have difficulty between two fractious Indian tribes; to political insiders and energy organizations, it was a divide-and-conquer play for the 21 billion tons of coal beneath Black color Mesa. Today, that coal power cheap electricity for Los Angeles, a new normal water aqueduct into Phoenix, and the neon dazzle of NEVADA. Journalist and historian Judith Nies has been traffic monitoring this tale for almost four generations. She follows the amount of money and explains to us the real story of riches and normal water, mendacity, and corruption at the best degrees of business and authorities. Amid the background of the breathtaking desert landscape, Unreal City shows five civilizations colliding - Hopi, Navajo, global energy organizations, Mormons, and US authorities agencies - resulting in a fight over resources and the continuing future of the West. NEVADA may catch the attention of 39 million visitors a year, however the visitors mesmerized by the dance normal water fountains at the Bellagio don't ask where the water comes from. They don't see a city with the country's highest rates of foreclosures, unemployment, and suicide. They don't really see the amazing drop in the water level of Lake Mead - where LAS VEGAS gets 90 percent of its normal water resource. Nies shows the way the struggle over Black color Mesa lands can be an example of a worldwide phenomenon in which giant transnational organizations have the power to split up indigenous people from their energy-rich lands by making use of host governments. Unreal City explores how and why resources have been extracted from native lands, what this means in an era of climate change, and why, in this city divorced from aspect, the thing more powerful than money is normal water.
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