Downriver

Into the Future of Water in the West

AvHeather Hansman

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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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 an environmental reporter, Heather Hansman knew these fights were happening, but she felt driven to see them from a different perspective—from the river itself. So she set out on a journey, in a one-person inflatable pack raft, to paddle the river from source to confluence and see what the experience might teach her. Mixing lyrical accounts of quiet paddling through breathtaking beauty with nights spent camping solo and lively discussions with farmers, city officials, and other people met along the way, Downriver is the story of that journey, a foray into the present—and future—of water in the West.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-01-21
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:313 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:The University of Chicago Press
ISBN:9780226819976

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Heather Hansman is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in Outside, California Sunday, Smithsonian, and many others. After a decade of raft guiding across the United States, she lives in Seattle.

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"[A] strength of Downriver is Hansman’s ability to make complex and historically fraught water issues understandable. It can take years of engagement to fully comprehend many of the topics she discusses, such as tribal water rights. But Hansman’s writing is clear and succinct, and she has done a great deal of research. As someone who has spent the better part of a decade thinking about Colorado River governance, I was impressed by the book. Hansman exceeded my expectations. Her descriptions and discussions of western water topics are so useful and accurate that they make an excellent starting point for anyone wanting to learn more about these issues."

Innehållsförteckning

On the River702 cfsFarms686 cfsThe Law of the RiverGrowing a Crop of Humans in the DesertAll Those People Have to EatCities2,790 cfsThe Only Watering Hole in the Whole CountyFlowing Uphill to MoneyWhose Rights?Dams6,940 cfsClaiming and ReclamationAfter the DamProtect the Green River at All CostThe Map of What’s NextFish9,080 cfsLarval TriggersHumans Are a Species, TooWhat’s the Point of a Wild River?One Big Fish TankRecreation9,180 cfsThrough the GatesWhat Is It Worth?We Save What We Love and We Love What We KnowFuture Risks10,600 cfsEnergy and PowerWater Is Where the Fight IsClimate Change Is Water ChangeFuture Plans6,820 cfsThis Land Is Your LandYou Can’t Just Sell Out to a CityGetting Comfortable with RiskConfluence3,220 cfsTimelineAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex