IN THE WESTERN U. S. TODAY, water is increasingly scarce and valuable; it’s basically liquid gold. The combination of a “first in time, first in right” system for managing water rights — meaning senior water rights always have priority — with increasingly dry conditions has triggered a rush to buy up land and its water, drying up farms.
Ben Knight’s , a short documentary that premiered April 25, tells a familiar story: Communities across the West are languishing and disappearing as they lose access to water. Through painting an intimate portrait of Pueblo, Colorado’s agricultural community, the film
