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Down the River

· The following version of this book was used to create the lesson plan: Kolbert, Elizabeth. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future. Penguin Random House LLC., 2021.
· Down the River Chapter 1, begins with the author and narrator, Elizabeth Kolbert, describing the river as a metaphor for depth, reflection, and life.

· Kolbert goes to the present time in which she is riding in a boat far down along the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal with the Friends of the Chicago River.

· Those aboard the City Living pass the Stickney sewage plant and talk about how the recent rains have caused CSOs or combined sewer overflows.

· Prior to the digging of the canal, Chicago’s waste ran into the Chicago River and into Lake Michigan, which led to regular typhoid and cholera outbreaks as the lake was the only source of drinking water for the Chicagoans...

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