Anthropogenic Aquascapes: 3 Videos About Water

Meximperiali
The Mexicali and Imperial valleys, both belonging to the historical flood plain of the Colorado River, are two of the most intensively productive agricultural regions in Mexico and the U.S. This video serves as a reminder that these two valleys remain very much one cultural, environmental, and hydrological entity
2009, color video, 10 minutes.

Cuyahoga
Ohio's Cuyahoga River has long maintained the dubious distinction of igniting the U.S. environmental movement in 1969. This fire, however, was unremarkable in its intensity and singularity—for a number of industrial-age waterways (over the course of more than a century) have episodically burst into flames. The Cuyahoga is a generally more tranquil river today, but the remnants of its intensively industrialized past still soberly operate along its shores. This video examines the modest decorum and monumental grace of these remaining waterside enterprises.
2009, color video, 8.5 minutes

CESPT
The two rivers that serve the city of Tijuana, Mexico (the inbound Colorado and the outbound Tijuana) are two heavily litigated, politically contentious, courageously border-defying bodies of water. Artificially yoked by a 118-mile long aqueduct that spans northern Baja's vast desert, these two conjoined entities labor to hydrate this rapidly and perilously expanding metropolis. CESPT investigates one particular segment of this vast, transnational trajectory of water from its storage at the city's picturesque reservoir, to its transport, treatment, remediation, and ultimate release into the Pacific Ocean.
2009, color video, 7 minutes.