How Dry We Are
This week The Arizona Republic has been running a terrific environmental series by Shaun McKinnon. "Rivers Pushed to the Brink" boasts well-researched, authoritatively written stories that show how Arizona risks losing its most precious natural resource: water. Along with photographer Mark Henle, McKinnon traveled 5,000 miles through Arizona and Mexico talking to people and learning the stories of the state's six major rivers. Henle's slideshows share the vast beauty of the rivers and how desperately residents depend on them for farming, mining, recreation and basic survival.