Summary

The section from Pages 1-47 is identified as " Day One, Saturday, June 4th." It opens from Alyssa Morrow's perspective. Alyssa notes that the water simply stops for their region after Arizona and Nevada officials stop allowing water to flow through their reservoirs, meaning the Colorado River is no longer flowing through California. They watch a television report and learn that the limited water supply is being used for critical services only. Alyssa is 16 and her brother Garrett is 10. He immediately begins to complain about his thirst. They go outside and find several neighbors. The adults talk about the situation and Alyssa thinks about what brought them to this point. She knows they did not care about the source of their water as long as it was reliable. But when water from the Colorado River became the only source of water for the entire...