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.
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