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Time To Stop Blaming The Compact?
November 29th, 2022
Via Sustainable Waters, commentary on the Colorado River Compact and the conclusion that the true reason we are experiencing a water shortage crisis in the Colorado River Basin is not because of flaws in the Compact, but rather because we have been unable to reduce our use of water commensurate with the reality that the river […]
Read more »In Drought-Hit Iraq, A Dam Threatens To Swallow Farmland
November 29th, 2022
Via Al Monitor, an article on a dam in drought-hit Iraq that threatens farmland: Jamil al-Juburi, 53, has never left his village in northern Iraq, where his family has worked the land for generations — but a dam will soon swallow his home, forcing them out. Tens of thousands of Iraqis are threatened by the […]
Read more »‘Free Water’ Was Never Free, According To Historian of the American West
November 29th, 2022
Via The Revelator, commentary on how subsidized water cultivated the West, but this required becoming increasingly profligate with the region’s scarcest resource. The West uses too much water. For such a simple problem, the obvious solution — use less — lies frustratingly out of reach. That inability to change may seem hard to understand, but […]
Read more »Engineers Warn of ‘Severe’ Groundwater Shortage In Northwest Pakistan
November 29th, 2022
Via Third Pole, reports of a ‘severe’ groundwater shortage in northwest Pakistan: Takht-e-Nasrati in northern Pakistan was once known for its lush greenery. But over the past 10 years local people say life has become very different in this area of Karak district, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Tubewells have dried up, forcing residents to dig deeper in […]
Read more »The Colorado River Compact Turns 100 Years Old. Is It Still Working?
November 29th, 2022
Via Inside Climate News, a look at the Colorado River company, an agreement that didn’t consider the needs of Native Americans, Mexico or ecosystems and which – since its signing – the river has dropped, demand has skyrocketed and states have failed to agree on how to share it. On a chilly fall day, Eric Kuhn […]
Read more »Catalonia Limits Water Use As Spain Prays For Rain
November 22nd, 2022
Via National Newswatch, an article on new water restrictions in Spain: Barcelona and large swathes of Spain’s northeast are going under water restrictions as a months-long drought that has devastated crops starts to put the pinch on human activities in the Mediterranean country. The measures will affect 6.7 million people, 80% of the population in […]
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