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A amazing, eye-opening bank account of where our drinking water comes from and where it all goes. The Colorado River is an essential tool for a astonishingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is managed or stated by someone. David Owen traces all those things drinking water from the Colorado's headwaters to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland but now a million-acre desert. He calls for listeners with an adventure downriver, along a labyrinth of waterways, reservoirs, electric power crops, farms, fracking sites, ghost cities, and RV parks, to the location near to the US-Mexico border where the river runs dried. Water problems in the western United States can seem to be tantalizingly easy to solve: just turn off the fountains at the Bellagio, stop offering hay to China, ban golf, decrease the almond trees, and wipe out all the law firms. But a closer look reveals a massive man-made ecosystem that is far more complex and more interesting than the news let on. The storyplot Owen says in Where this particular Goes is essential to your future: how a patchwork of executive marvels, byzantine legal contracts, aging infrastructure, and neighborly cooperation enables life to flourish in the desert, and the disastrous outcomes we face when any part of the tenuous system fails.
