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Big Companies Cashed In on Mississippi’s Water. Small Towns Paid the Price.
February 14th, 2024
Courtesy of the New York Times, an article on how big companies vowed to fix Mississippi’s water woes and save cities millions, but an Times investigation found the deals racked up debt and left many worse off than before: In winter 2021, more than 150,000 people living in Jackson, Miss., were left without running water. Faucets […]
Read more »The Red-Dead Sea Canal: A Fading Pipe Dream To Fix The Middle East’s Water Woes
February 14th, 2024
Via IFL Science, a look at the proposed Red-Dead Sea Canal which, with relationships in the Middle East at an all-time low, the Red Sea–Dead Sea may never come to fruition: Two fingers of the Red Sea – the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba – rise through the Middle East between Egypt, […]
Read more »With Climate Change, Colorado River Officials Peer Into Muddy Future
February 12th, 2024
Via the Washington Post, a report on efforts to use innovative, web-based tools to predict the Colorado River’s future flows: To ensure that the Colorado River can remain a lifeline for 40 million people, the federal government is looking for answers in the extremes of the distant past and the warnings of a hotter future. In a low-slung […]
Read more »Will It Pay Off? In Colorado’s San Luis Valley, Paying for the Water They Use
February 11th, 2024
Via JFleck’s Inkstain, a look at an interesting experiement in western U.S. water management: Folks in Colorado’s San Luis Valley are engaged in a bold experiment in western water management – charging farmers for the water they use. Jerd Smith explains: A new rule approved by the area’s largest irrigation district, known as Subdistrict 1, and […]
Read more »Iran’s Lake Urmia Is Lying On Its Deathbed With A Small Window Of Time Left To Save It, Experts Warn
February 11th, 2024
Via Forbes, an article on the deteriorating condition of Iran’s Lake Urmia: This is a sad story but one with a little bit of hope in the end. Like the famous Aral Sea in central Asia and the Great Salt Lake in Utah, the expanse of Iran’s Lake Urmia has been drying up for years. […]
Read more »Like Utah, California Has Had Pipeline Dreams To Save Its Drying Salton Sea
February 10th, 2024
Via KUER, an article on California’s – and Utah’s – pipeline dreams to save inland water bodies: Most people don’t know that California’s largest lake — the Salton Sea — was a mishap. Birthed in 1905 when the Colorado River experienced massive floods, the accidental lake soon became a community commodity. It once was a recreation destination, […]
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