Life After Dead Pool: Lake Powell's Last Days and the Rebirth of the Colorado River
Life After Dead Pool: Lake Powell's Last Days and the Rebirth of the Colorado River
Life After Dead Pool: Lake Powell's Last Days and the Rebirth of the Colorado River
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Description
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Award-winning journalist Zak Podmore brings to life the magnificent terrain and complex politics of the Colorado River, its dying reservoirs, and the natural and cultural histories of Glen Canyon that are reemerging as Lake Powell shrinks to record lows.
Since it began filling in 1963, Lake Powell has been central to water management for much of the western US. But now, after more than two decades of drought, the Colorado River has been stretched to the breaking point. Due to a changing climate and design flaws in the Glen Canyon Dam, this once-massive reservoir is on the brink of collapse -- leaving the millions of people who depend on its waters at risk. Podmore explores the challenges ahead with a focus on the bright side of the water crisis: the surprising ecological rebirth that's already unfolding in Glen Canyon.
Through clear science writing and lyrical prose, Life After Dead Pool debunks the notion that the West's water challenges are unsolvable and invites us to secure a future where Glen Canyon returns in its wild glory and the Colorado River once again runs free.
Since it began filling in 1963, Lake Powell has been central to water management for much of the western US. But now, after more than two decades of drought, the Colorado River has been stretched to the breaking point. Due to a changing climate and design flaws in the Glen Canyon Dam, this once-massive reservoir is on the brink of collapse -- leaving the millions of people who depend on its waters at risk. Podmore explores the challenges ahead with a focus on the bright side of the water crisis: the surprising ecological rebirth that's already unfolding in Glen Canyon.
Through clear science writing and lyrical prose, Life After Dead Pool debunks the notion that the West's water challenges are unsolvable and invites us to secure a future where Glen Canyon returns in its wild glory and the Colorado River once again runs free.
About the Author
About the Author
Zak Podmore is the southeast Utah reporter for The Tribune. He has been writing from Bluff, Utah, since 2015 and is the author of Confluence: Navigating the Personal & Political On Rivers of the New West.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"Life After Dead Pool is a fascinating account of how climate change and drought are forcing a radical reimagining of western water management. Investigative journalist Zak Podmore gives us solace, insight, and maybe even hope.
--DAVID QUAMMEN, Spillover and The Heartbeat of the Wild
"Zak Podmore offers a plan both visionary and practical, on how the river can, once again, redeem the region."
--DAVID GESSNER, All the Wild That Remains and A Traveler's Guide to the End of the World
"Both a cure and instigator for sandstone and river-induced canyon-itis, Podmore explores a future without Glen Canyon Dam through the lens of a journalist and the soul of an adventurer. The future of water management in the west starts with asking tough questions, and Podmore investigates the issue's centerpiece."
--MORGAN SJOGREN, Path of Light
"By taking us into the lost and reemerging landscapes of Glen Canyon, Podmore deepens our understanding and calls us to action to protect the greatest resource we have in the desert--water."
--CALVIN CROSBY, The King's English Bookshop "Podmore shares a fascinating history and offers us a hopeful and practical solution to a natural ecosystem that is miraculously emerging from the depths "
--ANNETTE MCGIVNEY, Pure Land
--DAVID QUAMMEN, Spillover and The Heartbeat of the Wild
"Written in time with Lake Powell's water level decline, Life After Dead Pool is Zak Podmore's clear-eyed but hopeful assessment of the potential restoration of Glen Canyon. A captivating vision of regional transformation."
--FOREWORD REVIEWS
"An invaluable chapter in the history of the Colorado River."
--DAVID EVERETT, Back of Beyond Books
"Zak Podmore offers a plan both visionary and practical, on how the river can, once again, redeem the region."
--DAVID GESSNER, All the Wild That Remains and A Traveler's Guide to the End of the World
"Both a cure and instigator for sandstone and river-induced canyon-itis, Podmore explores a future without Glen Canyon Dam through the lens of a journalist and the soul of an adventurer. The future of water management in the west starts with asking tough questions, and Podmore investigates the issue's centerpiece."
--MORGAN SJOGREN, Path of Light
"By taking us into the lost and reemerging landscapes of Glen Canyon, Podmore deepens our understanding and calls us to action to protect the greatest resource we have in the desert--water."
--CALVIN CROSBY, The King's English Bookshop "Podmore shares a fascinating history and offers us a hopeful and practical solution to a natural ecosystem that is miraculously emerging from the depths "
--ANNETTE MCGIVNEY, Pure Land
Publishing Information
Publishing Information
Publisher:
Torrey House Press
Pub date:
2024-08-06
Length:
360 pages
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