Literary journalism is sometimes characterized as slow journalism—a kind of journalism that is best done when tackling complex and difficult subjects, as though taking a prolonged plunge into deep and troubled waters. Jacques Leslie’s Deep Water exemplifies this immersive approach to storying through an account of the every-day, mostly non-spectacular, yet deadly consequences that come with environmental wrongs brought on by the building of megadams. In a nod to John McPhee’s triadic structure in his classic 1971 text documenting environmentalist David Brower’s battles with three of his ideological enemies, Leslie selects three members of the independent World Commission on Dams to tell the story of megadams. Yet, what also surfaces is Leslie’s voice. There is “an author at work” here, as Norman Sims puts it, and one that, through his writing, exposes the gradual, accretive, attritional and incremental violence perpetrated against the “unimagined communities” of those displaced across time and space by the megadams. This chapter shows how Leslie’s writing, tangentially informed by McPhee’s, brings these excised bodies back into view.