SALT RIVER MANIFESTO
Salt River Manifesto is a personal narrative and environmental exploration that blends memoir, history, engineering, and ecology. It follows the author’s journey of rediscovery after a painful divorce and career upheaval, as he relocates from Idaho to Arizona. There, he becomes captivated by the Salt River—a 300-mile waterway essential to the life and growth of central Arizona and the Phoenix metropolitan area.
“Bret Moffett brings an environmentalist’s vision, an engineer’s rigor, and a historian’s sensitivity to this geographic chronicle of the Salt River. He travels its length, directs our attention to the hidden places, and explains how Arizona harnessed its most essential central waterway to make a huge economic leap but at the cost of making a dead spot in its heart. If you want to know why the state looks the way that it does — lush in some lucky places, dehydrated in others — read this book.”
—Tom Zoellner
Author of Rim to River: Looking into the Heart of Arizona
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The Author
Bret Moffett is an experienced technologist and executive with more than 40 years of experience in manufacturing, engineering, and environmental in the United States and abroad. His extensive background in diverse settings gives him the ability to see the big picture while keeping an eye on the details. He is recognized as a strategic thinker, visionary, and innovator, and was honored as an Idaho Business Review CEO of Influence in 2021.
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This book is both a love letter to Arizona’s Salt River and a warning about environmental fragility. It tells a deeply human story—how rivers shape civilizations and how one man’s journey along the Salt River helped him reconcile personal hardship with a broader concern for the future of humanity and the planet.
