{"id":1843,"date":"2010-10-09T17:05:23","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T00:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jo-online.vsb.bc.ca\/keller\/?p=1843"},"modified":"2010-10-09T17:05:23","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T00:05:23","slug":"photo-story-death-of-the-colorado-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/2010\/10\/09\/photo-story-death-of-the-colorado-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo story: Death of the Colorado River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photo story: Death of the Colorado River<br \/>\nAs a river fades, a photographer captures the suffering on both sides of the US-Mexico border.<\/p>\n<p>By News Desk \u2014 GlobalPost Editors<br \/>\nPublished: October 7, 2010 11:16 ET in The Americas<br \/>\nBOSTON \u2014 For centuries, the Colorado River flowed 1,450 miles from the Rocky Mountains to the Sea of Cortez.<\/p>\n<p>But for a variety of reasons, this lush vein of plenty today evaporates before crossing the Mexican border.<\/p>\n<p>Photographer Brain L. Frank roamed northern Mexico and the American Southwest, documenting the human toll of the river&#8217;s disappearance. Here is what he found:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Some beautiful pictures of a very sad and disturbing event that is happening all around us more and more&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jo-online.vsb.bc.ca\/blogs\/jo\/keller\/files\/2010\/10\/FullFrame_2010_02_25_Colorado_River025.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1844\" src=\"http:\/\/jo-online.vsb.bc.ca\/blogs\/jo\/keller\/files\/2010\/10\/FullFrame_2010_02_25_Colorado_River025.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"378\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLake Meade, a reservoir fed by the Colorado, has seen its water level drop more than 100 feet in recent years as a result of drought, increased agricultural use, a booming Las Vegas population and climate change. (Brian L. Frank\/GlobalPost)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">To see all the Photos please read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalpost.com\/dispatch\/the-americas\/101007\/death-the-colorado-river\">Death of the Colorado River<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo story: Death of the Colorado River As a river fades, a photographer captures the suffering on both sides of the US-Mexico border. By News Desk \u2014 GlobalPost Editors Published: October 7, 2010 11:16 ET in The Americas BOSTON \u2014&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/2010\/10\/09\/photo-story-death-of-the-colorado-river\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-links","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}