Where The Water Goes: Life And Death Along The Colorado River

"Water is a primary environmental concern of our age. The Colorado River Compact, determining water usage rights across seven states and Mexico, has shaped the West – and Where the Water Goes traces all of the river’s 1,400 miles. It’s a restless travelogue of human impact on the natural world and how politics and economics have as much to do with redirecting rivers as any earthwork. With its historical eddies, policy asides, and trips to the Hoover Dam, Where the Water Goes is about water as a function of time and a reminder that we’re running out of both."