03825cam a2200721 4500 587307398 TxAuBib 20220722120000.0 ||||||s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780226432700 022643270X B07PJ1ZL86 Amazon 358af06f-c75c-4d8f-a7c5-ed7ee0bd0f4d OverDrive (Reserve ID) 4626157 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Hansman, Heather. Downriver [Libby] : Into the Future of Water in the West. University of Chicago Press, 2019. Wyoming. Green River. Land use. preservation. Conservation. Nature. Environmentalism. Nonfiction. Utah. Global Warming. Farming. travelogue. ranching. endangered animals. Dams. habitat. National Parks. Fish. Natural Resources. American west. Climate change. Travel. Environment. Colorado. water rights. Drought. Agriculture. Urban. irrigation. Desert. memoir. rafting. hydropower. alternate energy. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1068kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Nature. Nonfiction. HTML:<p><b>Award-winning journalist rafts down the Green River, revealing a multifaceted look at the present and future of water in the American West.</b><br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> 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, <i>Downriver</i> is the story of that journey, a foray into the present—and future—of water in the West.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-21 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=358af06f-c75c-4d8f-a7c5-ed7ee0bd0f4d&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=358af06f-c75c-4d8f-a7c5-ed7ee0bd0f4d&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=358af06f-c75c-4d8f-a7c5-ed7ee0bd0f4d&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)