Environment

Supplying vital water to more than 30 million Americans living in the arid West, the Colorado River is one of the most diverted, dammed, and heavily litigated rivers in the world. In full-color, photo essay format, The Colorado River: Flowing Through Conflict, follows the river’s epic 1,450-mile journey from its headwaters high in the Colorado Rockies to its dried-up delta touching the Sea of Cortez. With striking photography and authoritative prose, Peter McBride and Jonathan Waterman illuminate the historical, geographical, and environmental significance of this life-giving river.

About Peter McBride
Native Coloradan Peter McBride has always been passionate about flying, particularly low and slow. That aerial bug helped lure him into a self-taught photography career that has taken him on assignment to over 60 countries for National Geographic, Smithsonian, and Outside magazines. His photography, writing, and video work have earned him accolades internationally, and in 2007 he was awarded a Knight Fellowship for professional journalists at Stanford University. When not on assignment, Peter can be found on his family’s ranch cutting hay or “chasing water” (irrigating), or around his home in nearby Basalt, Colorado, where he serves as a town councilman.

About Jonathan Waterman
Jonathan Waterman has worked as a wilderness guide, magazine editor, park ranger, director of a small press, guard dog agitator, and freelance writer. He has authored ten books, including Running Dry: A Journey From Source to Sea Down the Colorado River (National Geographic Books, 2010) and five television documentaries. The recognition for his work includes magazine and book awards, a literary fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and an Emmy. He has created a wall map of the Colorado River Basin, and with coauthor Peter McBride, “The Colorado River: Flowing Through Conflict” photography exhibit, touring the West.