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Tribe, US Officials Reach Deal To Save Colorado River Water
April 11th, 2023
Via ABC News, a report that a Native American tribe in Arizona has reached a deal with the U.S. government not to use some of its Colorado River water rights in return for $150 million and funding for a pipeline project: A Native American tribe in Arizona reached a deal Thursday with the U.S. government […]
Read more »Troubled Waters: India, Pakistan, and the Indus Water Treaty 2.0
April 11th, 2023
Via The Diplomat, an article on how – while it is clear that the Indus Water Treaty needs to be renegotiated – the process is likely to be packed with trouble: The Indus Water Treaty (IWT), one of the most effective water sharing mechanisms in the world, recently came back into the spotlight as a […]
Read more »Drought-Ravaged Colorado River Gets Relief From Snow, But Crisis Remains
April 9th, 2023
Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times, a report on how the drought-ravaged Colorado River got some relief from snow, but its long-term water crisis remains: Four months ago, the outlook for the Colorado River was so dire that federal projections showed imminent risks of reservoirs dropping to dangerously low levels. But after this winter’s major […]
Read more »Afghan Canal A Test For Taliban Ties In Water-Stressed Central Asia
April 9th, 2023
Via Radio Free Europe, commentary on a planned new Afghan canal which will parch an already water-stressed Central Asia: When the Taliban returned to power in 2021 in a lightning military insurrection that toppled Afghanistan’s internationally recognized government, the country immediately fell into diplomatic isolation. Two of Kabul’s neighbors to the north, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, […]
Read more »Turkey’s Dams Bring Power and Heartbreak
April 9th, 2023
Via Foreign Policy, a report on the impact of Turkey’s hydropower ambitions: Standing on a hilltop overlooking the vast Kackar mountain range in Turkey’s northeastern Artvin province, residents of Yusufeli are slowly watching their town drown. Each day, the water rises an estimated 3 feet, erasing gardens, graveyards, and streets; then come houses, historical churches, […]
Read more »How We Drained California Dry
April 7th, 2023
Via the MIT Technology Review, an article on the story of remaking California and taking the water until there was nothing left: The wind finally blew the other way last night and kicked out the smoke from the burning Sierra. Down here in the flatland of California, we used to regard the granite mountain as […]
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