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Last Call at the Oasis

Sep 09, 2011 | IMDB 7.5

105 min Watch Now

Documentary

Participant Media’s Last Call at the Oasis is a new documentary from Jessica Yu & Elise Pearlstein. Think water is an infinite resource? Think again.

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Erin Brockovich, Gina Gallego, Jay Famiglietti, Peter H. Gleick, Robert Glennon, Tyrone Hayes

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