Where the water goes life and death along the Colorado River
The Colorado River is a crucial resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado's headwaters to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland but now a million-acre dese...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Riverhead Books,
[2017]
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| Summary: | The Colorado River is a crucial resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado's headwaters to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland but now a million-acre desert. He takes readers on an adventure downriver, along a labyrinth of waterways, reservoirs, power plants, farms, fracking sites, ghost towns, and RV parks, to the spot near the U.S.-Mexico border where the river runs dry. Water problems in the western United States can seem tantalizingly easy to solve: just turn off the fountains at the Bellagio, stop selling hay to China, ban golf, cut down the almond trees, and kill all the lawyers. But a closer look reveals a vast man-made ecosystem that is far more complex and more interesting than the headlines let on. |
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| Physical Description: | 274 pages : map ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-266) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781594633775 1594633770 |
| Author Notes: | (Bowker Author Biography) |
