environment

Crested Butte, CO, is protected by the type of land trust the Conservation Finance Network teaches people to establish.

The view of the University of Montana campus from the nearby Mt. Sentinel.

Water shapes every aspect of our lives, but how many of us know where our water comes from or who decides how it's distributed? In his new book, Chasing Water, Brian Richter argues that our water shortages can best be addressed by teaching people how water supply works and giving them a seat at the table in deciding how it is allocated. Richter shows why, just like our bank accounts, the water accounts of individual rivers and aquifers are shaped by deposits and withdrawals.

By Dominick A. DellaSala, Camila Thorndike, and Jim Furnish Originally published by the Mail Tribune One of us is a scientist, the next a young climate activist, and the third the former Siuslaw National Forest supervisor and Evangelical Environmental Network board member.