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White House Looks to Safeguard Groundwater Supplies as Aquifers Decline Nationwide
July 26th, 2024
Via Inside Climate News, an article on how the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology is working with local stakeholders to determine how the federal government can help communities dependent on groundwater protect the dwindling resource: In the middle of summer in the nation’s hottest city, water experts from local governments, tribal nations, […]
Read more »Thirsty New Subdivisions Have Made the Texas Groundwater Crisis Plain to See
July 25th, 2024
Via The Texas Tribune, a look at how overdevelopment in Texas,and the rules that encourage it, could literally sink communities such as Katy, where the land is subsiding due to groundwater extraction: Longhorns used to graze across the street from the house where Ozzy Tirmizi settled with his family in Katy, a western exurb of […]
Read more »As Rio Grande Runs Dry, South Texas Cities Look To Alternatives For Water
July 25th, 2024
Via The Texas Tribune, a report on how, as the Rio Grande runs dry, South Texas cities are looking to alternatives for water: The Rio Grande is no longer a reliable source of water for South Texas. That’s the sobering conclusion Rio Grande Valley officials are facing as water levels at the international reservoirs that […]
Read more »In Idaho, Water Shortages Pit Farmers Against One Another
July 20th, 2024
Via Inside Climate News, a look at how – this summer – a short-lived curtailment order brought a dispute to a head between farmers irrigating from the Snake River and those dependent on groundwater: Along the banks of the Snake River, below the Magic Valley’s fields of barley, wheat and corn, groundwater from a massive […]
Read more »South Texas Leaders Push To Meet Incoming Mexican President Over Water Debt ‘Crisis’
July 18th, 2024
Via InformNY, a report on efforts by South Texas leaders to meet with the incoming Mexican president over water debt ‘crisis’: Lawmakers from the Rio Grande Valley are vying to meet with Mexico’s incoming president over water owed to the United States. U.S. Rep. Monica De La Cruz, R-Texas, this week wrote to Mexican President-Elect […]
Read more »Colorado River Water Use in Three States Drops to 40-Year Low
July 2nd, 2024
Via Circle of Blue, a report on Colorado River water use and a report that Arizona, California, and Nevada took less water from the struggling river: As the Colorado River declines, one fundamental question hangs over the Southwest’s most important waterway: can its people and industries slash their water use, thus aligning their water demands […]
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