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Colorado River Deadlines & Incentives
December 17th, 2025
Via JFleck at Inkstain, a summary of Colorado River deadlines and incentives: Key Takeaways The consensus-based effort to develop new rules to manage the Colorado River system hasn’t worked – it’s time for a new approach Federal leadership and the credible threat of managing reservoirs to protect the system is that new approach Missing Deadlines […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon and Parched Tiger: India and China in Deep Water over Himalayan Hydropower
December 15th, 2025
Via East Asia Forum, a report on how India’s US$77 billion Brahmaputra hydropower initiative and China’s mega-dam at the Yarlung–Tsangpo Great Bend are turning the Himalayas into a digital hydropower flashpoint. Both states are tying dams to AI-enabled grids and data centres, but share no mechanism to manage the Brahmaputra. As China preserves its ‘hydrological […]
Read more »We’re Thinking About AI and Water All Wrong
December 14th, 2025
Via Wired, a thoughtful look at while fears about AI data centers’ water use have exploded, experts say the reality is far more complicated than people think: Last month, journalist Karen Hao posted a Twitter thread in which she acknowledged that there was a substantial error in her blockbuster book Empire of AI. Hao had written that a proposed Google […]
Read more »Colorado River Water Is Too Cheap, Particularly for Agricultural Users
December 14th, 2025
Courtesy of Inside Climate News, analysis of a new report from UCLA and the Natural Resources Defense Council which found nearly a quarter of Colorado River water is basically provided for free by the federal government: Colorado River water is not priced at rates that accurately reflect its scarcity, incentivizing inefficiency and overconsumption as climate […]
Read more »Evolution of Water Sustainability In MENA
December 14th, 2025
Via The Frontier Post, a look at the evolution of water sustainability in MENA: The Middle East and North Africa region’s battle against water scarcity has never been more urgent. As climate change escalates, with rising temperatures and frequent droughts, the region finds itself at the forefront of global efforts toward innovative water solutions. The […]
Read more »Dancing With Deadpool: Equity in the Colorado River Basin
December 10th, 2025
Via Jfleck, a spotlight on an excellent new report Dancing With Deadpool, a broad effort by a broad group of contributors to the Colorado River Research Group: Access to water, a concern around the globe, is constrained in many areas of the Colorado River Basin (CRB) by water scarcity, pollution and lack of delivery and […]
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