Downriver : into the future of water in the West /

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Author / Creator:	Hansman, Heather, author.
Edition:	Paperback edition.
Imprint:	Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2022. ©2019
Description:	221 pages : maps ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Hansman, Heather -- Travel -- Green River (Wyo.-Utah) Water conservation -- West (U.S.) Water-supply -- West (U.S.) Travel. Water conservation. Water-supply. Green River (Wyo.-Utah) -- Description and travel. United States -- Green River (Wyoming-Utah) West United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12714039

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ISBN:	0226819973 9780226819976
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-217) and index.
Summary:	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. Providing water for thirty-three million people, it flows through ranches, cities, national parks, and some of the most significant natural gas fields in the country. 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 long-standing, intractable, and only getting worse as the West gets hotter and drier and more people depend on the river with each passing year. Former raft guide and environmental reporter Heather Hansman knew the issues but felt driven to see the situation firsthand and from a different perspective - from the river itself. So she set out on a journey, in a one-person inflatable pack raft and with an open mind, 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. --

Table of Contents:

On the river : 702 cfs
Farms : 686 cfs. The law of the river ; Growing a crop of humans in the desert ; All those people have to eat
Cities : 2,790 cfs. The only watering hole in the whole county ; Flowing uphill to money ; Whose rights?
Dams : 6.490 cfs. Claiming and reclamation ; After the dam ; Protect the Green River at all cost ; The map of what's next
Fish : 9,080 cfs. Larval triggers ; Humans are a species, too ; What's the point of a wild river? ; One big fish tank
Recreation : 9,180 cfs. Through the gates ; What is it worth? ; We save what we love and we love what we know
Future risks : 10,600 cfs. Energy and power ; Water is where the fight is ; Climate change is water change
Future plans : 6,820 cfs. This land is your land ; You can't just sell out to a city ; Getting comfortable with risk
Confluence : 3,220 cfs
Timeline.

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