Alfre Woodard

Narrator (voice)

Marc Reisner

Self - Author, 'Cadillac Desert'

Catherine Mulholland

Self - William Mullholand's Granddaughter

Clara Rambeau

Self - Elder, Owens Valley Paiute Tribe

Kevin Starr

Self - California State Librarian

Robert Towne

Self - Screenwriter, 'Chinatown'

Ernie Kinney

Self - Owens Valley Resident

Cynthia Irwin

Self - Owens Valley Resident

Flora Nash

Self - Owens Valley Resident

Howard Holland

Self - Owens Valley Resident

Vernon Miller

Self - Chairman, Fort Independence Tribe

Robert Phillips

Self - General Manager, Chief Engineer 1972-75

George Miller

Self - Congressman, California

Elma Blaver

Self - Mono Lake Resident

Sally Gaines

Self - Co-Founder, Mono Lake Committee

David Gaines

Self - Co-Founder, Mono Lake Committee (archive footage)

Augie Hess

Self - Mono Lake Resident

Patricia Mulroy

Self - Manager, Las Vegas Valley Water District

Blaine Hamann

Self - Manager, Hoover Dam

Barry Goldwater

Self - U.S. Senator, Arizona

Floyd Dominy

Self - Commissioner of Reclamation, 1959-1969

Daniel Beard

Self - Commissioner of Reclamation, 1993-1995

David Brower

Self - Executive Director, Sierra Club

Tommy Nelson

Self - Hoover Dam Construction Worker

Ila Clements

Self - Daughter of Hoover Dam Worker

Ferrell Secakuku

Self - Chairman, Hopi Tribe

David Wegner

Self - Manager, Glen Canyon Environmental Studies

Katie Lee

Self - River Runner

Martin Litton

Self - Sierra Club Board of Directors

Jack Woolf

Self - Grower

Leland Sparks

Self

Martin Semper

Self - Semper Truck Lines

Jeff Edwards

Self - Tulare Basin

Kathleen Brown

Self - California State Treasurer

Pete Peña Jr.

Self - Truck Driver

Pete Peña Sr.

Self - Farm Laborer

Jason Peltier

Self - Manager, CVP Water Association

Dean MacCannell

Self - Sociologist, University of California

Tony Silva

Self - Mayor of Huron, 1978

Gary Zahm

Self - US Fish & Wildlife Service

John Harris

Self - Westlands Grower

Sandra Postel

Self - Author, 'Last Oasis'

Harris Chan

Self - Three Gorges Engineer

Tiahoga Ruge

Self - Director, CICEANA

Hillel Shuval

Self - Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Amos Banin

Self - Hebrew University, Rehovot

Jad Isaac

Self - Director, Applied Research Institute, Bethlehem

Dan Luecke

Self - Environmental Defense Fund

Charles Wilkinson

Self - Professor of Law, University of Colorado

Ken Strom

Self - National Audubon Society

Chips Barry

Self - Director, Denver Water Department

Steven Flanders

Self - City Ice Company

Glenn France

Self - Casa Del Agua, Tucson, AZ

Elsa Lopez

Self - Metropolitan Water District

Martha Davis

Self - Exec. Director, Mono Lake Committee

Alejandro Robles

Self - Conservation International

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self (archive footage)

John F. Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

Jimmy Carter

Self (archive footage)

Bill Clinton

Self (archive footage)

George H. W. Bush

Self (archive footage)