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Colorado River Tribes Can Lease Their Water To Dry States, but Why Is It So Hard?
May 18th, 2024
Via Grist, a look at how the Colorado River Indian Tribes can now lease water to non-Indigenous users along the drought-stricken river, but most nations can’t do the same: The Colorado River Indian Tribes now have the ability to lease their water rights off-reservation, a move that could ease pressures on communities facing the effects […]
Read more »California’s Nuumu People Claim LA Stole Their Water, Now They’re Fighting for Its Return
May 18th, 2024
Via KQED, a report on California’s Nuumu People’s struggle to reclaim their water: When Noah Williams was about a year old, his parents took him on a fateful drive through the endless desert sagebrush of the Owens Valley — which the Nüümü call Payahuunadü — in California’s Eastern Sierra. Noah was strapped into his car […]
Read more »A Water War Is Starting To Boil Between U.S. and Mexico
May 18th, 2024
Via The Washington Post, a report on water tensions between the U.S. and Mexico in south Texas, where a water shortage killed the sugar industry and could slow growth in booming border towns: A water dispute between the United States and Mexico that goes back decades is turning increasingly urgent in Texas communities that rely […]
Read more »Thirsty In Paradise: Water Crises A Growing Problem Across the Caribbean Islands
May 18th, 2024
Via Phys.org, a report on water crises in the Caribbean: In the popular imagination, the Caribbean is paradise, an exotic place to escape to. But behind the images of balmy beaches and lush hotel grounds lies a crisis, the likes of which its residents have never experienced. Caribbean islands are in a water crisis, and […]
Read more »Nevada May Expand Cash-for-Water Rights Programs for Imperiled Regions
May 17th, 2024
Via Las Vegas Review Journal, a report on Nevada’s plans to expand cash-for-water rights programs for imperiled regions: The Las Vegas Valley gets almost all its water from the Colorado River. But in the rest of the state, thousands of homes rely on groundwater wells, relying on a resource they have a right to use […]
Read more »Will Mexico City Run Out of Water?
May 15th, 2024
Via Scientific American, a report on Mexico City’s water crisis: The global press recently warned that as early as June 2024, Mexico City, home to 22 million people, could face “Day Zero—the complete loss of fresh water at the taps. The situation on the ground, although dire, is more nuanced. “Day Zero is a bit […]
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