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Could a 550-Mile Pipeline From the Ocean Save the Great Salt Lake?
December 13th, 2023
Via Smithsonian Magazine, a report on new research suggesting that the electricity costs would exceed $300 million per year and carbon dioxide emissions could approach one million metric tons annually from a proposed 550-mile pipeline to save the Great Salt Lake: A 550-mile pipeline pumping water from the Pacific Ocean to the rapidly depleting Great […]
Read more »The Deal Shaping the Future of the American West
December 13th, 2023
Via Politico, a report on the deal that’s shaping the future of the American West: The future of the American West is quietly being hashed out in the conference rooms of a Las Vegas casino this week. Just across the strip from the Bellagio’s fountains, in the shadow of an enormous Eiffel Tower-knock-off, negotiators from […]
Read more »Taliban Vow To Finish Disputed Canal At ‘Any Cost’
December 10th, 2023
Via Nikkei Asia, a report on the Taliban’s vow to finish a disputed canal at ‘any cost’ despite its Central Asian neighbors crying foul over its plans to tap shared river: A massive canal project in Afghanistan has alarmed the country’s neighbors over fears it will drain a river key to their agricultural economies, but […]
Read more »New Mexico Looks to Address Increasing Aridity With Brackish and Produced Water
December 10th, 2023
Via Inside Climate News, a report that New Mexico plans to spend $500 million on salty water from deep underground and wastewater from oil and gas production as a solution to its shortage: New Mexico will invest $500 million into purchasing water from controversial sources, including treated oilfield wastewater, as a means to bolster the state’s […]
Read more »Colorado River Deal Opens Cash Spigot For Big Farms
December 3rd, 2023
Via Politico, an article on how billions of dollars of Inflation Reduction Act money meant to tackle drought looks likely to make it more expensive to clinch a broader deal critical to economies in several states: A widely hailed deal to conserve water from the shrinking Colorado River is turning into a windfall for some […]
Read more »Two Companies That Dominate The U.S. Carrot Crop …And Water Use
December 1st, 2023
Courtesy of Forbes, a report on the two companies that dominate the U.S. carrot crop, and dominate water use in Southern California’s Cuyama Valley, where residents are calling for a boycott of Big Carrot over the amount of water their farms are sucking out of the ground: It sounds weird to say that carrots are […]
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