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Tapped Out

Miniseries · 4 episodes · May 4, 2017

  1. Episode 1

    Part 1

    May 4, 2017

    What the Golden State looked like before settlement, and how irrigation systems set the stage for California's first major water plan: the Central Valley Project.

  2. Episode 2

    Part 2

    May 11, 2017

    The State Water Project was completed in the 1970s. How the environmental revolution changed agriculture forever in the San Joaquin Valley.

  3. Episode 3

    Part 3

    May 18, 2017

    The fight to control water continues to intensify and force farms out of business, in part because of regulations impacting water delivery.

  4. Episode 4

    Tapped Out II

    Sep 1, 2022

    Explores the health of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta after nearly 30 years of environmental protection policies that use half of the state's developed water resources. Is it working?