{"product_id":"witness-to-water-pete-mcbride-9781950253517","title":"Witness to Water: One Photographer's Mission to Defend the Colorado River","description":"For six million years, the Colorado River flowed to the sea. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Sadly, this is no longer the case. Dammed, polluted, and redirected to sustain ever-increasing demand from cities and agriculture, the mighty Colorado now runs dry more than a hundred miles from where it once met the ocean. This disruption of a critical natural resource has caused untold ecological devastation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Award-winning photographer and filmmaker Pete McBride has documented these alarming changes, undertaking a source-to-sea journey of hundreds of miles to see for himself what had become of his beloved backyard river. \u003ci\u003eWitness to Water\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles that journey and McBride's mission to fight for conservation and restoration of the Colorado, as well as a similar source-to-sea journey along the Ganges, and the infamous 750-mile hike through the Grand Canyon that would become the subject of \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eA Walk in the Park\u003c\/i\u003e by Kevin Fedarko. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e See the Colorado River as never before, through the eyes of one of its greatest advocates. McBride paints a riveting picture of the water crisis in which we find ourselves and what we risk if we don't do the work to fix it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pete McBride\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1950253511\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781950253517\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hierophant Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/17\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Pete McBride","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47427800989951,"sku":"9781950253517","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3d7e5bc3-5083-41f1-8763-dabcd67af993.jpg?v=1761581678","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/witness-to-water-pete-mcbride-9781950253517","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}