Water Crisis

The construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway promised economic prosperity but unleashed ecological disaster through invasive species like sea lampreys and alewives.

The unsustainable water allocations and the precarious future of Western civilization.

An exploration of the American West's water crisis, from early explorers to modern engineering disasters, revealing the hubris of trying to remake a desert into farmland.

Explore the early explorers who understood the American West's arid nature and the folly of trying to settle it like the East.