[singigi in nativeveanguage] captioning made possible by the annenberg/cpb project [h[hns honking] [woman] rk twain's quote is thatat whiskekeis for drinking and wawar is for fighting oveve at quote w w made probably,, certainly over 100 years a a. it's old informatiti, and it's important to know that thahas the history bebend water c cflictt

and has bebe for hundreds of years and will c ctinunu to be that way. weweeed to all realize that. [narrator] it's aprililn nevada, d in pyramid lake, the cui-i- fish, tracted by t t flow om the truckee river, art their r awning run. but like fresh water in other parts of ththworlrl the truckee's water has long been fought over and isistill in n spute. e truckee starar in california's highghierras and flowowowwn into the n nada desert. bubuthe water is hotly c ctested from l le tahoe to pyramid lake. this proroamamooks he c cflictingngnterests over this valuable r rource and at the lives ananlililihoods of the p pplee for whom truckee river water is so imimrtant. pyramid lake is the e me of the p pamid lake trtre,

paiute indndns known historically as the f fh eaears or cui-ui eaters. [man] this water here, for what it is, to us s s eans more than just watching it flowown the river.r. what m mns more totoss is seeing this water ow into pyramid lake, sesengnghe pelican, seseng the cui-ui, seeingngll thihihihi that's what it meansnstete flowto s s that,lake. to make sure that we can enjoy this habitatata [man]] this is a cui-ui, which h a large lake e ckck which is native to pyramid lake and ththlower truckee river. they're very lononlived species-- theyeyl live up to 40 yeyes or more-- and they've been listetete on the endangered species listss since e 67.