At the mouth of the Colorado River in northern Mexico, water that once surged into the sea now barely trickles through a parched delta. These photographs document the lives of the people who remain in this fragile landscape, fishermen, farmers, and families whose way of life is slowly evaporating. Once a vast and thriving wetland, the Colorado River Delta has become a stark symbol of how climate change and overuse are rewriting the natural order of the American Southwest and northern Mexico.

For decades, dams and diversions upstream have reduced the river to a shadow of itself. Rising temperatures and prolonged droughts, the sad hallmarks of human-induced climate change, are accelerating its decline. Yet amid the desiccated estuaries and cracked riverbeds, communities adapt in quiet, powerful ways: replanting native vegetation, reviving ancestral water knowledge, and calling for international cooperation to restore ecological balance. These images aim to capture the resilience in a region where water is life, and its absence is a profound reckoning.