JONAS KAKO
The dying River

The Colorado River once stretched over 2,000 kilometers, from
the snow-capped slopes of the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of
California, across the western United States and Mexico.
But the river in the desert of Sonora has been drying up since
the 80s and no longer reaches the delta, because extensive
agriculture and diversion of water to metropolitan areas such
as Phoenix and Las Vegas led to changes in the course of the
river. Dams, huge canal systems, growing cities in the desert.
Today over 44 million people depend on the water of the
Colorado, but less and less snowfall in the Rocky Mountains,
due to the climate crisis, intensifies the struggle for water and the river slowly disappears.

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