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Colorado River Crisis Averted?
November 3rd, 2023
Via The Land Desk, commentary on the US federal government’s federal proposal to cut Lower Basin water use which is a start, but dry winters in the next three years could send the river back to the brink of a crisis: Maybe by now you’ve heard that the collective users of the Colorado River have […]
Read more »Argentina’s Kilimo on Developing a Water Savings Market in Latin America
November 1st, 2023
Via AgFunder News, a look at one effort to develop a water savings market in Latin America: After several years of selling irrigation management tools to farmers, Argentina-based Kilimo recently adjusted its business model to focus on “water neutrality” for corporates. The concept is “kind of like carbon markets but specifically tied to water savings,” says Kilimo […]
Read more »Water Wars: When the Taps Run Dry
November 1st, 2023
Via the Breakthrough Institute, an article on the desert plains beyond the Rocky Mountains, where mega-drought is no longer a theory: Shore dwellers in New Jersey, the Carolinas, and Florida barred from commercial flood insurance; homeowners in the forests of the Rockies and Sierra Nevada denied fire insurance by firms whose loss calculations now see […]
Read more »Megafires Endanger Water Supplies In American West
November 1st, 2023
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a look at how the era of megafires endangers water supplies in American West: The largest fire in New Mexico history began with a disastrous government agency blunder. Its consequences for land and a small northern New Mexico city’s water were magnified by man-made climate change. In the first week […]
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