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Mississippi River Dries Up Again at Worst Time for US Farmers
October 26th, 2024
Via Bloomberg, a report on the impact of drought on the Mississippi River: Barges are running aground even after carrying partial loads Nearly two-thirds of crop exports can be shipped on the river The Mississippi River is suffering from low waters for the third straight autumn, a crucial time of year when American farmers rely […]
Read more »Using Desalination To Terraform the American West
October 26th, 2024
Via Casey Handmere’s blog, enthusiastic commentary on the potential to transform the U.S. west via desaliation: Why is there almost nothing on the left hand side of the USA? Water scarcity! We’re missing 300 million Americans. We’re missing 30 global cities west of 100 degrees longitude. We should do something about it! The western US […]
Read more »Federal Court Ruling on a Reservoir Expansion Could Have Big Implications for the Colorado River
October 26th, 2024
Courtesy of Inside Climate News, an article on how some upstream users are racing to divert more water from the declining river, a choice that a judge wrote in a recent court ruling is “perplexing” and risks forcing cutbacks for users in the future: A federal district court judge ruled last week that the U.S. […]
Read more »A Rural Arizona Community May Soon Have a State Government Fix For Its Drying Wells
October 26th, 2024
Via Inside Climate News, a report on Arizona’s recent announcement that it was beginning the process to regulate groundwater in Willcox, where industrial farming has drained the aquifer, a big step to reign in the overconsumption of underground water supplies in rural Arizona: Lisa Glenn has seen what happens when a rural desert community’s groundwater […]
Read more »Holding Out Hope On the Drying Rio Grande
October 25th, 2024
Via Inside Climate News, a look at how the once-mighty Rio Grande river is barely a trickle through much of West Texas. Scientists and advocates say local initiatives could be scaled up to restore flows to the river. The year was 1897. Flood waters from the Rio Grande submerged entire blocks of downtown El Paso. […]
Read more »The Parched Tiger: India Is Facing The Biggest Water Crisis In Its History
October 24th, 2024
Via the Local Telegraph, an article on India’s water crisis: Lack of water is not unusual, especially in developing countries. A concrete example is China, which holds 7% of the world’s water resources, but uses 16% of the planet’s water. Meanwhile, India is facing the biggest water crisis in its history. About 600 million people […]
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