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Hey, Hay! What About Alfalfaphobia in the Colorado River Basin?
June 10th, 2023
Courtesy of The Land Desk, commentary on the water impact of alfalfa farming in the Colorado River Basin: In recent weeks I’ve written a piece or two about alfalfa. My thesis: As the biggest single water user in the Colorado River Basin, the crop must play an equally large role in contributing to the cuts necessary to keep the river […]
Read more »Arizona, Low on Water, Weighs Taking It From the Sea. In Mexico.
June 10th, 2023
Courtesy of The New York Times, a look at a $5 billion plan to desalinate seawater in Mexico and pipe it to Phoenix is testing the notion that desert cities can keep growing as the Earth warms: Fifty miles south of the U.S. border, at the edge of a city on the Gulf of California, […]
Read more »Deep Drought Punishes Latin American Clean Water Pioneer
June 9th, 2023
Via Bloomberg, a look at how extreme weather has caught Uruguay – a standout for its history of investing in safe drinking water – flat-footed as it faces the safety risks of prolonged drought: Uruguay is suffering an unprecedented water crisis as a record drought threatens supplies of piped drinking water used by more than […]
Read more »Not Just In Ukraine: How Armies Turn Water Into A Weapon Of War
June 9th, 2023
Via 19FortyFive, a look at how the breach of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine is hardly the first time that water has been used as a weapon of war. Earlier this week a breach in the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant unleashed the Dnipro River, flooding a vast expanse of the Ukrainian countryside. Russia and Ukraine have blamed one […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Across Asia, China Has ‘Most to Lose’ If Rivers Run Dry
June 4th, 2023
Via EcoBusiness, a look at how – across Asia – China has the ‘most to lose’ if mother rivers run dry and don’t recover from climate change: Late last year, when two months of scorching heatwaves and a drought pushed China’s electricity grid to the brink and caused severe power shortages in multiple provinces, it […]
Read more »Arizona’s Water Troubles Show How Climate Change Is Reshaping The West
June 4th, 2023
Courtesy The Washington Post, a look at how Arizona’s water troubles show how climate change is reshaping the West: Jay Famiglietti moved to Arizona this year after a career using satellites to study how the worst drought in a millennium was sapping groundwater beneath the American West. He has documented that the decline of groundwater […]
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