Published on Mar 17, 2016
What’s happening to the Colorado River is tragedy on an epic scale – for the Native Americans whose water has been poisoned; for a western United States parched by drought and sliding towards chronic, irreversible water shortage; for the planet as a whole, as the rapidity with which the river is drying up is signaling how climate change is already reshaping our world.
Collectively’s Cayte Bosler traces the stories along the course of the Colorado from the air – joining a group of students and Aspen’s Eco-Flight project, who are working to raise awareness of, and find solutions for, the source of this iconic river’s alarming decline.