A river runs through it Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River David Owen Riverhead Books, 2017. 288 pp

A meandering history probes the Colorado River's verdant legacy and fraught future Where the Water Goes traces the flow of the Colorado River from its headwaters in the Colorado Rocky Mountains to its terminus at the Gulf of California in Mex­ico. Part road-trip documentary, part memoir, and part geopolitical and hy­drology lesson, author David Owen's book follows the historical and geographic course of the river, the water it carries, and the lives that depend on it.