"KINDLE Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the 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. Stoed 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 river8217s water, and what8217s going to haen 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 haening, but she felt driven to see them from a different perspective8212from the river itself. So she set out on a journey, in a one-person inflatable pack raft, to paddle the river from
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