A story about our water woes – Cadillac Desert

Drought and climate change have forced the West to rethink water management, with some politicians pressing for new dams or major projects like Democratic California Gov. Jerry Brown’s $15 billion proposal to build two 40-foot-wide tunnels to carry water from the state’s wet north to its arid south.

But now, as most of those dams and projects hit the half-century mark, many are returning to “Cadillac Desert” and Marc Reisner, who died of cancer in 2000 at 51.

Read about Reisner and “Cadillac Desert” at E&E News