In his fact-filled and thought-provoking critique of man’s long history of impacts on the Snake River, Richard Manning, writing in a recent High Country News asks the reader to acknowledge one basic fact.  “The Snake River Plain,” he writes “sprawling over 15,600 square miles, is a desert.  The river system and about 10 inches of rain a year are its water supply entire.”

From this common point, Manning traces a worrisome, dizzying inventory of human impacts, reflecting on the cumulative effects of man’s development on this once-pristine watershed, finally concluding “Idaho’s Sewer System is the Snake River.”    >Read More via https://www.hcn.org/issues/46.13/idahos-sewer-system-is-the-snake-river