Water and Power is a 1989 experimental documentary film by Pat O'Neill.
[1] A reflection between nature and man in Los Angeles about the city's surroundings' desertification due to enormous water consumption.
[2][3] It won the Documentary Grand Jury Prize at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival.
[4] It was selected to the United States National Film Registry in 2009 as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
[5][6] Water and Power was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009 in conjunction with Pat O'Neill.