sandra postel

From Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity By Sandra Postel Island Press 2017 www.islandpress.org/book/replenish  Excerpted from "Water Everywhere and Nowhere," Chapter 1 of Replenish As I wound my way up Poudre Canyon in northern Colorado, the river flowed toward the plains below, glistening in the midday sun. It ran easy and low, as it normally does as the autumn approaches, with the snowmelt long gone. I was struck by the canyon’s beauty, but also by the blackened soils and charred tree trunks that marred the steep mountains all around. They were legacies, I realized, of