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Federal Court Ruling on a Reservoir Expansion Could Have Big Implications for the Colorado River
October 26th, 2024
Courtesy of Inside Climate News, an article on how some upstream users are racing to divert more water from the declining river, a choice that a judge wrote in a recent court ruling is “perplexing” and risks forcing cutbacks for users in the future: A federal district court judge ruled last week that the U.S. […]
Read more »A Rural Arizona Community May Soon Have a State Government Fix For Its Drying Wells
October 26th, 2024
Via Inside Climate News, a report on Arizona’s recent announcement that it was beginning the process to regulate groundwater in Willcox, where industrial farming has drained the aquifer, a big step to reign in the overconsumption of underground water supplies in rural Arizona: Lisa Glenn has seen what happens when a rural desert community’s groundwater […]
Read more »Holding Out Hope On the Drying Rio Grande
October 25th, 2024
Via Inside Climate News, a look at how the once-mighty Rio Grande river is barely a trickle through much of West Texas. Scientists and advocates say local initiatives could be scaled up to restore flows to the river. The year was 1897. Flood waters from the Rio Grande submerged entire blocks of downtown El Paso. […]
Read more »Water Challenges – Made Worse by Rising Temperatures – Threaten World’s Crops
October 24th, 2024
Via Grist, commentary on how water challenges – made worse by rising temperatures – are threatening the world’s crops: A new report finds that one-quarter of the world’s crops are grown in places facing high levels of water stress, water unreliability, or both. The analysis comes from the research nonprofit World Resources Institute, or WRI, and highlights […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India Is Facing The Biggest Water Crisis In Its History
October 24th, 2024
Via the Local Telegraph, an article on India’s water crisis: Lack of water is not unusual, especially in developing countries. A concrete example is China, which holds 7% of the world’s water resources, but uses 16% of the planet’s water. Meanwhile, India is facing the biggest water crisis in its history. About 600 million people […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: Why India Needs to Incentivize Water Reuse
October 21st, 2024
Via The Diplomat, commentary that – to encourage greater water reuse – India must prioritize infrastructure development, implement sound policies, and allow private sector participation: While treated wastewater in India is often discharged into water bodies or used for non-essential purposes such as irrigating public parks, its reuse for more critical applications remains relatively uncommon. […]
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