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Can the Ocean Save the Colorado River? San Diego Thinks So.
March 7th, 2024
Via Voice of San Diego, an article on how the San Diego Water Authority is both selling off its expensive desal water and trying to make more of it: Facing rising costs and rates, the leaders of San Diego’s water lifelines are looking to sell some of its most expensive supply: de-salted ocean water from […]
Read more »Talks To Save The Colorado River Just Hit A Logjam
March 6th, 2024
Courtesy of The Washington Post, a report on how talks to save the Colorado River just hit a logjam: There has been a breakdown on the way toward a long-term plan to save the shrinking Colorado River. Negotiations over plans to conserve its waters starting in 2027 have bifurcated: Arizona and California, two of the biggest […]
Read more »An Elegy For The Amu Darya River
March 6th, 2024
Courtesy of Guernica, a look at how – in so many ways – human behavior is emptying the Amu Darya: Most mighty rivers enjoy a spectacular finale: a fertile delta, a mouth agape to the sea, a bay of plenty. But it had taken me almost a week to find where the Amu Darya comes […]
Read more »Climate Change, Cost and Competition for Water Drive Settlement Over Tribal Rights to Colorado River
March 6th, 2024
Via AP News, a report on how a Native American tribe with one of the largest outstanding claims to water in the Colorado River basin is closing in on a settlement with more than a dozen parties, putting it on a path to piping water to tens of thousands of tribal members in Arizona who […]
Read more »Record Drought Hits the Mediterranean Region
March 5th, 2024
Via Smart Water Magazine, an article on the record drought hitting the Mediterranean region: Severe and prolonged drought events have affected Europe for more than two years and northern Africa for six years, causing water shortages and hampering vegetation growth. The Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) published its report Drought in the Mediterranean – January 2024 on the […]
Read more »Worrying Water Levels at Kyrgyzstan’s Critical Toktogul Reservoir
March 5th, 2024
Via The Diplomat, a report on the worrying water levels at Kyrgyzstan’s critical Toktogul Reservoir where water levels have dropped closer to a concerning ‘dead’ level: Kyrgyzstan’s Deputy Minister of Energy Taalaibek Baygaziev has once again called for consumers to be mindful of their electricity usage as water levels in the Toktogul reservoir drop. In […]
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