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Could Trump Break the West’s Most Important River?
March 21st, 2025
Via Politico, a report on how the new Administration could impact the Colorado River’s future: A Native American tribe with a powerful water claim had an ultimatum for the Trump administration: Release money to protect the Colorado River — or fight over the future of the most important river in the West. Uncharacteristically, the Trump […]
Read more »Trump Threatens Great Lakes Agreements Between U.S. and Canada
March 19th, 2025
Via Circle of Blue, a look at how Great Lakes water and related agreements between the U.S. and Canada are clearly on President Trump’s radar: In 2024 when Donald Trump as a presidential candidate proposed piping water from British Columbia, Canada to California, his statement was largely dismissed as campaign rhetoric. Once he was elected, Canadians started […]
Read more »Arizona Pushes Largest For Largest Tribal Water Rights Settlement In U.S. History
March 15th, 2025
Via the Arizona Mirror, an article on Arizona’s elected officials’ efforts to achieve the largest tribal water rights settlement in US history: A settlement that will provide reliable and safe water for the Navajo Nation, the Hopi Tribe and the San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe has been introduced in Congress, where it must be approved […]
Read more »Water At War: Kakhovka Dam In Ukraine
March 15th, 2025
Via Phys.org, commentary on the long-term environmental consequences of the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine: Water is misused as a weapon when infrastructure and water resources are deliberately destroyed in armed conflicts. Water resources and infrastructure are also affected by the ongoing armed conflict in Ukraine: In June 2023, the Kakhovka Dam, which […]
Read more »Forget Tariffs, Trump May Target the Great Lakes and Canada’s Freshwater Next
March 12th, 2025
Via The Financial Post, a report on how – with parts of the U.S. facing chronic drought – the U.S. president has reportedly threatened to tear up joint agreements regulating the natural wonders: Thomas Kierans was stopped by a reporter in St. John’s, Nfld., on the occasion of his 100th birthday. Regarded around town as […]
Read more »Exploring Hidden Depths
March 10th, 2025
Introducing Hidden Depths, a six-part narrative podcast miniseries from CSIS, exploring the dynamics of water conflict and the possibilities for water cooperation.
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