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Tribe Sues Interior Department Over Approval of Arizona Lithium Project
August 13th, 2024
Via Inside Climate News, a report on a lawsuit filed by the Hualapai Nation which claims a lithium exploration project near its reservation and the town of Wikieup could threaten a spring sacred to the tribe: The Hualapai Nation sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management Friday over its approval of a lithium exploration project […]
Read more »Some of Arizona’s Most Valuable Water Could Soon Hit the Market
August 13th, 2024
Via Circle of Blue, a look at how a small tribal community along the Colorado River could become a major player in the state’s water supply: South of Headgate Rock Dam, beyond riverbanks lined with willow and mesquite, the broad floodplain of the Colorado River spreads across emerald fields and sun-bleached earth. The Colorado River […]
Read more »Central Asia Leaders Call For Joint Policy On Water
August 12th, 2024
Via Terra Daily, an article on Central Asian water issues: Central Asian leaders met in Kazakhstan Friday to seek to agree a shared policy on water management in a region where the scarce resource causes frequent disputes.Interruptions to water supplies are a regular occurrence in the five ex-Soviet Central Asian countries — Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, […]
Read more »Arizona Residents Fear What the State’s Mining Boom Will Do to Their Water
August 10th, 2024
Via Inside Climate News, an article on many Arizonans’ fears that the state’s mining boom will threaten limited water supplies, as nearly 80 percent of Arizona lacks any form of groundwater regulation, allowing big users like the copper mines supplying the energy transition to consume vast amounts of the scarce resource: Overlooking a ridge in […]
Read more »As Canadian River Shrivels, Northern Communities Call for a Highway
August 8th, 2024
Via Yale e360, a look at how – with the Mackenzie River too low for barge traffic – villages in the Northwest Territories are flying in food, fuel, and other essentials. A proposed highway could offer a lifeline as climate change further reduces flows, but the project faces big challenges in a warming Arctic. In […]
Read more »Parched Tiger: In Water-Starved Punjab, Why Plans For A New Irrigation Canal Have Raised Concerns
August 8th, 2024
Via India Express, a report on a new irrigation canal planned in water-starved Punjab: Almost seven decades after the construction of the Bhakra Main Line (BML), Sirhind Feeder, and the Bist Doab canals in the mid-1950s, Punjab wants to spend Rs 2,300 crore on a new irrigation channel, running roughly 150 km in a north-south […]
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