If anyone is qualified to weave a substantive examination of water challenges in the West with a tale of one woman’s solo journey down the length the mighty Green River, it’s journalist and paddler Heather Hansman. Using her river adventure as the story’s framework, Hansman explores the myriad of challenges surrounding water in the West, providing just enough data and detail to educate, without losing the reader to the mind-numbing jargon that defines most water-related writing.