Kayaking the San Joaquin

This summer, CNN columnist John D. Sutter embarked on a three-week, 417-mile journey down the “most endangered” river in America, the San Joaquin River in California, to raise awareness about the dangers facing this watershed in an “era of dead rivers.” As he writes, now is “a time when they’ve been so dammed, diverted and overused that many of them simply cease to flow.” Recently he completed this project and wrote a final article about trip. Read more via CNN.