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Will J.D. Vance save the Great Lakes from Trump?
February 14th, 2025
Courtesy of Grist, commentary on the new U.S. Administration’s policy towards the Great Lakes: Last year, Vice President J.D. Vance, then an Ohio senator, was part of a bipartisan coalition calling to increase funding for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, or GLRI — among the country’s largest investments aimed at protecting and restoring the Great Lakes. “The Great […]
Read more »Giving a Dam: Wyoming Tribes Push to Control Reservation Water as the State Proposes Sending it to Outside Irrigators
February 9th, 2025
Via Inside Climate News, a look at how the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho have long fought for water sovereignty on the Wind River Indian Reservation, but their effort is being challenged by federal legislation and a changing water landscape. Indigenous Peoples’ Day in October was thick with smoke on the Wind River Indian Reservation, […]
Read more »The American Dream (Water Not Included)
February 7th, 2025
Via The Lever, a look at how real estate developers are running a dark-money campaign to overturn new housing rules — and ignore basic laws of nature: For most of human history, a simple axiom for survival seemed to prevail: Don’t build houses where there is too little water. Amid dangerous droughts, Arizona officials recently […]
Read more »At Phoenix’s Far Edge, a Housing Boom Grasps for Water
January 31st, 2025
Via Circle of Blue, a report on how more than 1 million people could pour into western Maricopa County, Arizona in the coming decades – if housing developers can secure the water: Buckeye, Arizona, has plans to become one of the Southwest’s largest cities in the next decades. Photo © Brett Walton/Circle of Blue Beneath […]
Read more »Trump Says He’s Sending Water To LA. It’s Actually Going to Megafarms.
January 29th, 2025
Via Grist, a report on how the president’s executive orders on California water will help irrigate Central Valley farms. They won’t do anything to fight wildfires. While President Donald Trump has issued a flurry of far-reaching decrees during his first week in office, one relatively niche issue has received a disproportionate share of the president’s […]
Read more »Water, Water Everywhere…?
January 29th, 2025
Via The Land Desk, commentary on the recent USGS water assessment as well as data center water usage: In the closing days of the Biden administration, the U.S. Geologic Survey released its National Water Availability Assessment Report, which is a whopper of a study not only on how much water Americans use and for what, but […]
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