After years of drought have given the United States a terrible thirst and turned water into blue gold. Powerful magnate William Greele draws up secret plans to pipe water down from Quebec. But when conservationist Malcom Macpherson finds out he enlists the aid of a feisty British journalists, three rogue policemen, a reluctant eco-terrorist and a maverick governor they embark on a deadly race to save the planet - and their own lives - before it's too late.