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This week’s bookstore: Out West Books, 533 Main St., Grand Junction
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Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West
By Heather Hansman University of Chicago Press $18January 2022 On the same subject : 5 Myths About Summer That Affect Your Health (Psst, Higher SPF May Not Be The Answer).
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From the editor: The struggles over the Rio Verde water and what will happen to it in the future are old, 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 environmental reporter, Heather Hansman felt motivated to see from a different perspective — from the river itself. So she set out on a journey, on a one-person inflatable raft, to row the river from the source to the confluence and see what the experience could teach her. “Downriver” is the story of that journey, a foray into the present – and future – of water in the West.
From Marya of Out West Books: As a former ranger at Dinosaur National Monument and an avid river runner, I’ve always loved the Green River. Before reading this book, I hadn’t given much thought to what happens to water. It was just, you know, always there for some great river trips.
Heather Hansman’s time as a rafting guide piqued her interest and her journey on the river, across 730 miles of water from Wyoming, Colorado and Utah. It’s so beautifully written you’ll forget you’re reading non-fiction. The more time he spent on the river, the more he realized that his preconceptions about dams being bad and environmentally ruinous were “naive and not subtle”.
There is no hard and fast solution to water problems in the West, there is no answer that serves people, the environment and the river. Hansman’s book tackles the water controversies and now more than ever our water and our rivers are at risk.
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Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River
By David OwenPenguin Random House$1610 Apr 2018 On the same subject : Art in Society Scholarship to promote cross-disciplinary work through the arts in 2022.
From the editor: The Colorado River is an essential resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows through it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen tracks all that water from Colorado’s headwaters to its parched terminal, which was once a verdant swamp but is now a million-acre desert. It takes readers on an adventure downriver, along a labyrinth of waterways, reservoirs, power plants, farms, hydraulic fracturing sites, ghost towns and trailer parks, to the location near the US-Mexico border where the dry river.
From Marya of Out West Books: David Owen’s account of what happens to our Colorado River’s water is eye-opening and must-read for each and every one of us in the West. Like Hansman, Owens follows a river, in this case the Colorado, from its source in a snowbank in Rocky Mountain National Park to the point along the US-Mexico border where the river dries up.
Owens’ book also informs us that there is no easy way to solve our water problems. You can’t just turn off all the fountains in Las Vegas and let all the golf courses in Phoenix dry up (or could you?….hmmm). Many people in the Front Range, especially with the influx of new residents, don’t realize where their water comes from. Much of it comes from the Western Slope and the Colorado River.
As I see people watering their lawns in the middle of the July day, I think they fail to understand conservation and probably moved here from places where water was plentiful. “Where the Water Goes” weaves its way beautifully through crazy old water policies, aging dams, vying for farmers and ranchers and urban corridors to let the river allow us to live in this dry environment. Water is more crucial now than ever before and this book is an excellent introductory read. Must be required reading to become a resident.
As Precious as Blood: The Western Slope in Colorado’s Water Wars, 1900-1970
By Steven C. Schulte University of Colorado Press$39. See the article : US support for the Philippines in the South China Sea – US State Department.54Jan. 15, 2020
From the editor: Diversion of water from Colorado’s western slope to meet the needs of the rest of the state has been a contentious issue throughout Colorado’s history. Colorado’s source of water is in the snow that accumulates west of the Continental Divide, but the growing population in the Front Range continues to demand more municipal water. In “As Precious as Blood,” Steven C. Schulte examines the water wars between these two regions and how the western part of the state fits into Colorado’s overall water story.
From Marya of Out West Books: Starting with John Wesley Powell, who predicted that “all great values in this territory must be measured in acre-feet”, Schulte’s account of the politics and policies of water in the West is truly a detailed, but highly readable, story about how we arrived at today’s water laws. Lawmakers like Delphus Carpenter and Edward Taylor in the late 1800s and early 1900s, while resolving localized water disputes, realized that they might have to defend Colorado’s water against federal encroachment.
As a result, Colorado’s water laws influenced those of most western states. Schulte details the reasoning and logic that led lawmakers to build multimillion-dollar dams and reclamation projects that divert much-needed water to the Front Range and elsewhere. The water controversy in the West is clearly explained in this book.
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