Catholics in states affected by ever-shrinking Colorado River draw on Laudato Si’

When renowned science fiction author Robert Heinlein wrote in his apocalyptic 1952 short story “The Year of the Jackpot” that “the Colorado River was at a record low and the towers in Lake Mead stood high out of the water. But the Angelenos committed communal suicide by watering lawns as usual,” such a scenario was still the stuff of fantasy.
 
But imagination sometimes has an uncomfortable ability to become reality. The American Southwest is in the grip of a megadrought that jeopardizes the Colorado River and, with it, water supplies for major U.S. population centers and farm producers.
 
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