Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West Hansman Heather
Award-winning journalist rafts down the Green River, revealing a multifaceted look at the present and future of water in the American West.The Green River, the most significant tributary of the…
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Award-winning journalist rafts down the Green River, revealing a multifaceted look at the present and future of water in the American West.The Green River, the most significant tributary of the Colorado River, runs 730 miles from the glaciers of Wyoming to the desert canyons of Utah. Over its course, it meanders through ranches, cities, national parks, endangered fish habitats, and some of the most significant natural gas fields in the country, as it provides water for 33 million people. Stopped up by dams, slaked off by irrigation, and dried up by cities, the Green is crucial, overused, and at-risk, now more than ever.Fights over the river's water, and what's going to happen to it in the future, are longstanding, intractable, and only getting worse as the West gets hotter and drier and more people depend on the river with each passing year. As a former raft guide and