As we publish, scientists are announcing that the last dozen years are the driest in more than a millennium. With the desert's cities ever more dependent on water from the Colorado River, how will southwestern society meet the challenge of hyper-aridity? Chris and Alicia get water wonky with Kyle Roerink of the Great Basin Water Network.

S5E27: Sonoran Toads and the Dirty Business of Ego Death
1:01:18

S5E27: Sonoran Toads and the Dirty Business of Ego Death [subscribers cut]
1:00:43

S5E26: Maps, Vanished Lakes, and Two Desert Squirrels
34:14