Water Bodies: Love Letters to the Most Abundant Substance on Earth - Paperback

by Laura Paskus (Editor), Aaron A. Abeyta (Author), Christi Bode (Author)

Water Bodies consider what becomes endangered when we lose sight of the power of water.

The human experience has always been shaped by water, by its absence and its abundance. Now, as the climate crisis worsens, dry riverbeds and record floods remind us that water was never merely a resource to be managed or a commodity to be sold. It wields the power to reshape continents and capture our imaginations, a force as beguiling and as it is seductive. In Water Bodies, some of the West's most thoughtful writers remind us why stories about water stretch back as far as we can remember: where we find water, we find ourselves.

Author Biography

Laura Paskus (editor) is a longtime reporter based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She has worked for High Country News, Tribal College Journal, KUNM-FM, New Mexico Political Report, and Capital & Main, and currently, is a senior producer for NMPBS. Her 2020 book, At the Precipice: New Mexico's Changing Climate won the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for Nature/Environment.