Dem kleinen Örtchen Milagro in New Mexiko soll ein Ferienresort den wirtschaftlichen Aufschwung bringen. Doch nicht nur der Journalist Charlie Bloom (John Heard) betrachtet das Projekt mit Skepsis – denn viele ansässige Bauern würden dadurch ihren Lebensraum verlieren. Als Joe Mondragon einen der städtischen Bewässerungskanäle unerlaubterweise umleitet, um damit das verdorrte Bohnenfeld seines verstorbenen Vaters zu bewässern, nutzen die Behörden dies, um ihn unter Druck zu setzen. Denn sein Grundstück ist das einzige, das Immobilienhai Ladd Devine für seine Ferienanlage noch nicht erwerben konnte. Als die Dorfgemeinschaft von diesen unzulässigen Machenschaften erfährt, kommen alle zusammen, um gemeinsam gegen das Vorhaben der Behörden und des Bauherrn vorzugehen.

While building an irrigation system for a Southwestern desert community, an engineer vies with a local cowboy for the affections of a rancher's daughter.

Cowboys from Texas is a 1939 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by George Sherman.Texas has opened up land for homesteaders. Clay Allison wants their land and has his men led by Plummer try to start a range war between them and the ranchers. With each side suspecting the other of their problems, the Mesquiteers realize someone else is responsible. Stony suspects Plummer and fakes leaving the Mesquiteers to join Plummer's gang hoping to find out who it is.

1880: Ärmel aufkrempeln, heißt es für die Tanners, als sie mit ihren Kindern auf der maroden Farm eintreffen. Doch nicht nur das Klima, auch die Nachbarn zeigen sich von der unwirtlichen Seite. So verweigert ihnen Rancher Cobbs den Zugang zur Wasserstelle…

At the heart of the Moroccan High Atlas mountains, water is a resource in short supply. The village of Tizi N'Oucheg has undergone a transformation thanks to Rachid Mandili, who is well-aware that the development of his village depends on access to clean water and on his strong leadership of this project. Mandili rallies all the villagers together and calls upon the knowledge of French and Moroccan scientists to tap water sources, to purify, and reuse waste water for irrigation. The documentary highlights the Berbers' community ties and ingenuity in their dream of independently managing their village water resources. It equally paints a portrait of a man whose initiative and resourcefulness has opened Tizi N'Oucheg up to modernity while still conserving its cultural heritage. Tizi's example presents some of the problems of water access in semi-arid regions and puts forward concrete solutions to these problems.

Mesopotamia was the site of the Sumerian civilisation, which flourished at the confluence of the rivers Tigris and Euphrates. From 5000 to 2000 BC, the Sumerians flourished in a hostile environment by developing agriculture and irrigation and they opened up the trade routes of the ancient world. It was the Sumerians who invented writing and the wheel, and they first divided time into minutes and seconds. In the end however the Babylonian civilisation took the place of the Sumerians. However their heritage and myths live on in the Mediterranean and Western worlds to this day.

Documentary on water usage and the growth of the American west, shown on PBS as a four-part miniseries