"If Alexandra Cousteau could impart just one piece of wisdom, it would be this: Get to know your water source. Like her grandfather, Jacques, the legendary explorer whose 1956 film “The Silent World,” is still the most influential underwater documentary ever made, 35-year-old Cousteau is educating millions of viewers worldwide. But just 55 years after her grandfather filmed the pristine reefs of the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, his granddaughter is forced to report an urgent reality: watersheds everywhere are becoming fractured and polluted, almost beyond repair.  After founding the D.C.-based non-profit Blue Legacy in 2008 and being named a National Geographic “Emerging Explorer” the same year, in 2009 D.C.-based Cousteau embarked on Expedition Blue Planet, a 14,500-mile journey across North America to investigate global water issues in her own backyard. I recently met the soft-spoken Cousteau, who is having a baby girl in July, in Costa Rica. She told me how it feels to be part of an exploratory dynasty, what she’s learned since her grandfather taught her how to dive at age seven, and why you’ll want to pay attention to her latest mission: reconnecting people to the water in their own backyards." - Jenny

"Why is the Colorado River so important? The Colorado River runs 1,450 miles from the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of California. It has carved the geography, history, and culture of the American Southwest and made the desert bloom. What most people don't know is that we have so over-allocated the river that it no longer reaches the sea. This has not only resulted in the loss of the Colorado River Delta which once was the size of Rhode Island, but it has created great hardship for the people who live there and depend on natural resources for their survival. The good news is that this is one of the systems we can work to restore." - Jenny

"What would your grandfather say about the state of our water issues if he were still alive? He would be just as concerned as he was when he was here, but there are also tremendous challenges that weren’t clear in his time such as climate change and ocean acidification. He was also an explorer and communicator and I think he would be thrilled by the new technologies for engaging people to write themselves into the story of water. People all over the world are using social networks to implement meaningful solutions to the issues in their communities. Everybody is part of the problem and everybody needs to be part of the solution." - Jenny

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the Colorado River is the most amazing river i was ever in !.. it has so many twists and turns and seems to go on forever! I would love to see some Used Shipping Containers as Homes along side some areas of the Colorado river instead of those trailer homes.http://containerhouse.info - David Lee