Alfre Woodard
Role: Narrator (voice)
Marc Reisner
Role: Self - Author, 'Cadillac Desert'
Catherine Mulholland
Role: Self - William Mullholand's Granddaughter
Clara Rambeau
Role: Self - Elder, Owens Valley Paiute Tribe
Kevin Starr
Role: Self - California State Librarian
Robert Towne
Role: Self - Screenwriter, 'Chinatown'
Ernie Kinney
Role: Self - Owens Valley Resident
Cynthia Irwin
Role: Self - Owens Valley Resident
Flora Nash
Role: Self - Owens Valley Resident
Howard Holland
Role: Self - Owens Valley Resident
Vernon Miller
Role: Self - Chairman, Fort Independence Tribe
Robert Phillips
Role: Self - General Manager, Chief Engineer 1972-75
George Miller
Role: Self - Congressman, California
Elma Blaver
Role: Self - Mono Lake Resident
Sally Gaines
Role: Self - Co-Founder, Mono Lake Committee
David Gaines
Role: Self - Co-Founder, Mono Lake Committee (archive footage)
Augie Hess
Role: Self - Mono Lake Resident
Patricia Mulroy
Role: Self - Manager, Las Vegas Valley Water District
Blaine Hamann
Role: Self - Manager, Hoover Dam
Barry Goldwater
Role: Self - U.S. Senator, Arizona
Floyd Dominy
Role: Self - Commissioner of Reclamation, 1959-1969
Daniel Beard
Role: Self - Commissioner of Reclamation, 1993-1995
David Brower
Role: Self - Executive Director, Sierra Club
Tommy Nelson
Role: Self - Hoover Dam Construction Worker
Ila Clements
Role: Self - Daughter of Hoover Dam Worker
Ferrell Secakuku
Role: Self - Chairman, Hopi Tribe
David Wegner
Role: Self - Manager, Glen Canyon Environmental Studies
Katie Lee
Role: Self - River Runner
Martin Litton
Role: Self - Sierra Club Board of Directors
Jack Woolf
Role: Self - Grower
Martin Semper
Role: Self - Semper Truck Lines
Jeff Edwards
Role: Self - Tulare Basin
Kathleen Brown
Role: Self - California State Treasurer
Pete Peña Jr.
Role: Self - Truck Driver
Pete Peña Sr.
Role: Self - Farm Laborer
Jason Peltier
Role: Self - Manager, CVP Water Association
Dean MacCannell
Role: Self - Sociologist, University of California
Tony Silva
Role: Self - Mayor of Huron, 1978
Gary Zahm
Role: Self - US Fish & Wildlife Service
John Harris
Role: Self - Westlands Grower
Sandra Postel
Role: Self - Author, 'Last Oasis'
Harris Chan
Role: Self - Three Gorges Engineer
Tiahoga Ruge
Role: Self - Director, CICEANA
Hillel Shuval
Role: Self - Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Amos Banin
Role: Self - Hebrew University, Rehovot
Jad Isaac
Role: Self - Director, Applied Research Institute, Bethlehem
Dan Luecke
Role: Self - Environmental Defense Fund
Charles Wilkinson
Role: Self - Professor of Law, University of Colorado
Ken Strom
Role: Self - National Audubon Society
Chips Barry
Role: Self - Director, Denver Water Department
Steven Flanders
Role: Self - City Ice Company
Glenn France
Role: Self - Casa Del Agua, Tucson, AZ
Elsa Lopez
Role: Self - Metropolitan Water District
Martha Davis
Role: Self - Exec. Director, Mono Lake Committee
Alejandro Robles
Role: Self - Conservation International
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Role: Self (archive footage)
John F. Kennedy
Role: Self (archive footage)
Jimmy Carter
Role: Self (archive footage)
Bill Clinton
Role: Self (archive footage)
George H. W. Bush
Role: Self (archive footage)
