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The Mississippi River and New Orleans at sunset.
BY DAVID GRUNFELD | DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHYDavid Grunfeld
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Louisiana’s reliance on the Mississippi means the mighty river can take away as much as it gives – and both the state and the nation are reaching a moment of reckoning.