Gallery: The Library of Congress Acquires Working Photog's Prints
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*Sitting on her family's failing farm, a grandmother is comforted by her daughter in Sonora, Mexico. The farm, with its thin cows and now arid land, sits only yards from where the Colorado River once provided life. Photo: Courtesy of Brian L. Frank/Redux*
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*California receives 4.4 million acre-feet of water from the Colorado River, a large percentage going to Los Angeles. Photo: Courtesy of Brian L. Frank/Redux*
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*A woman sunbathes in a pool near Phoenix, Arizona, in temperatures near 115°F. Photo: Courtesy of Brian L. Frank/Redux*
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*Laborers wait at dawn to begin a shift picking onion for less than a dollar an hour in the sweltering heat near the United States border in Sonora, Mexico. Photo: Courtesy of Brian L. Frank/Redux*
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*The Hoover dam tamed the mighty Colorado River and currently regulates water flow to the Southwest United States and Mexico. When Mexican farmers require more than their allotted water to irrigate their crops, they must purchase the water from the United States, an impossibility for smaller farmers. Photo: Courtesy of Brian L. Frank/Redux*
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*The Cerro Prieto geothermal power plant in Sonora, Mexico allegedly pollutes a large swath of the Colorado River in Mexico. Downstream many people rely on the water to provide fish and water for agriculture, while to the north, the United States purchases a large percentage of the power created by the plant. Photo: Courtesy of Brian L. Frank/Redux*
