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Last Call: New Mexico’s Colorado River Deliveries Vulnerable To Existing Water Management Framework
March 30th, 2024
Courtesy of the Colorado Environmental Law Journal, a new article that digs into dig into the law surrounding the New Mexico’s San Juan-Chama Project, which imports Colorado River water into the Rio Grande Basin that has become vital to water supplies in Santa Fe, Albuquerque, and New Mexico’s Middle Rio Grande Valley. A summary of learnings was that New […]
Read more »A Thirsty Reality: Iran’s Dire Water Situation
March 30th, 2024
Via the Atlantic Council, a report on Iran’s water crisis: Despite climate warnings since 1988, Iranian officials have consistently ignored regional environmental concerns, especially following the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988). For example, they prioritized dam construction and increased groundwater extraction for food self-sufficiency, disregarding environmental impacts. Former Agriculture Minister Issa Kalantari is now warning of irreversible groundwater depletion, […]
Read more »New Water Accounting Reveals Why Colorado River No Longer Reaches The Sea
March 29th, 2024
Via Nature, a new study that demonstrates how new water accounting reveals why the Colorado River no longer reaches the sea: Abstract Persistent overuse of water supplies from the Colorado River during recent decades has substantially depleted large storage reservoirs and triggered mandatory cutbacks in water use. The river holds critical importance to more than […]
Read more »Hay Grown For Cattle Consumes Nearly Half The Water Drawn From Colorado River
March 29th, 2024
Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times, an article on a new study showing that hay grown for cattle consumes nearly half the water drawn from Colorado River: With chronic water shortages afflicting the Colorado River, discussions about how to cut usage have increasingly focused on a thirsty crop that consumes an especially large share of […]
Read more »Colorado River: Solving Water Crises Begins With Good Data
March 29th, 2024
Via Sustainable Waters, an insightful look at – with negotiations over future allocations of water from the Colorado River (southwestern US) contentious and intensifying – anew study providing comprehensive accounting for all uses of the river’s water can aid design of strategies for bringing use back into balance with available supplies: The Colorado River in […]
Read more »Water Level of Caspian Sea Falling at Accelerating Rate
March 28th, 2024
Via Window on Eurasia, an article on the Caspian Sea: The water level of the Caspian Sea is falling at an accelerating rate, raising the specter not that that inland sea is going to go the way of the Aral anytime soon but rather that lower water levels will complicate the lives of littoral states […]
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