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February 12th, 2023
Via HeinOnline, a helpful online resource on U.S. water rights: In 2022, water levels at Nevada’s Lake Mead reached historic lows. The largest reservoir in the United States, Lake Mead provides water to some 20 million people throughout Arizona, California, and Nevada. But increased demand for water has slowly diminished the reservoir’s resources, a situation […]
Read more »Senators Form Bipartisan Colorado River Caucus As Tensions Rise Over West’s Water Crisis
February 12th, 2023
Via CNN, a look at how several senators have formed a bipartisan Colorado River caucus as tensions rise in the West over region’s water crisis: As the Colorado River sinks further into crisis and tensions rise between Western states over how to divvy up painful water cuts, a bipartisan group of senators are formalizing a new caucus to examine […]
Read more »The Ripple Effect: Water Politics in a Global Context
February 12th, 2023
Via Stanford, a recording of an interesting exploration of crises of water around the globe—the flooding of Pakistan, the depletion of aquifers in the American Great Plains, among others which gives rise to the question: what does climate justice action entail for the communities who are least responsible for anthropogenic climate disaster and yet often bear […]
Read more »As Colorado River Shrinks, Water Evaporation Becomes Critical To California’s Future Supplies
February 10th, 2023
Via the Los Angeles Times, an article on h0w – as the Colorado River shrinks – evaporation become critical to California: Much of the Colorado River’s water is diverted from reservoirs and transported in canals to the farmlands and cities of the desert Southwest. But some of the water also ends up going elsewhere — […]
Read more »An Opportunity To Revisit The Indus Waters Treaty
February 8th, 2023
Via Modern Diplomacy, commentary on an opportunity to revisit the Indus Waters Treaty: Two days before the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague was about to proceed with the hearing of “objected” hydro-power projects on tributaries, India issued a notice to Pakistan seeking amendments to the decades old and only pact that compels historic rivals […]
Read more »How Sensor-Dangling Helicopters Can Help Beat the Water Crisis
February 8th, 2023
Via WIRED, a report on a simultaneous solution to California’s extreme drought and flooding – banking more water underground: AFTER WEEKS OF near-constant rain and flooding, California is finally drying out—but hopefully not getting too dry, because the state needs all the rain it can get to pull itself out of a historic drought. This is California at its most frenetic […]
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