The Colorado River Is Drying Up. Here’s How to Protect It.

The Colorado River Is Drying Up. Here’s How to Protect It.

When Pete McBride reached the end of the Colorado River, he expected it to spill into the sea. Instead, he ran aground in the dry earth of the Colorado River Delta, roughly 100 miles from the Gulf of Mexico. The moment, which opens his book Witness to Water: One Photographer’s Mission to Defend the Colorado River, raises a stark question: How does a river that carved the Grand Canyon, supplies drinking water to 40 million people, and irrigates m…

Gen X is still driving down to The River – and finding it dry

Many in Generation X have reached midlife carrying mortgages, insecure work, dependent children and ageing parents. The growing anger across middle Australia did not come from nowhere.