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In Los Angeles, the Grass Isn’t Always Greener This Year
August 15th, 2022
Courtesy of the New York Times, an article on how Southern California residents are beginning to accept that lush lawns are unsustainable when reservoirs and rivers run low in a drought era: Erin Brockovich made her name decades ago as an environmental activist who exposed corporate wrongdoing that polluted drinking water. So she felt a bit defensive when a television […]
Read more »California Plans To Boost Water Supply As Drought Bites
August 13th, 2022
Via Terra Daily, an article on California’s plans to boost water supply as drought bites: More than two decades of devastating drought worsened by man-made climate change mean California must harvest, recycle and desalinate much more water, the state’s governor said Thursday. Unveiling an “aggressive” new strategy to combat a dwindling water supply, Gavin Newsom said […]
Read more »Arizona and California Farmers, Targets for Colorado River Cuts, Draft Their Conservation Strategy
August 12th, 2022
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, an article on how nearly 1 million acre-feet of compensated water cuts are being discussed by Arizona and California farmers: A plan is circulating among irrigation districts in southern Arizona and California to reduce Colorado River use by as much as 925,000 acre-feet. Such a plan would require billions in […]
Read more »The End of Snow Threatens to Upend 76 Million American Lives
August 9th, 2022
Via Bloomberg, an article on how the disappearing snowpack is accelerating the historic drought across the Western US, and so far government responses haven’t matched the scale of the problem: The Western US is an empire built on snow. And that snow is vanishing. Since most of the region gets little rain in the summer, even […]
Read more »In Dry California, Salty Water Creeps Into Rivers
August 9th, 2022
Via AP News, a report on another impact of the western U.S. drought: Charlie Hamilton hasn’t irrigated his vineyards with water from the Sacramento River since early May, even though it flows just yards from his crop. Nearby to the south, the industrial Bay Area city of Antioch has supplied its people with water from […]
Read more »Hard Choices Ahead For Colorado River
August 9th, 2022
Via Writers on the Range, commentary on the challenges facing the Colorado River: The seven Colorado River states – Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming – face a daunting mid-August deadline. The federal government has asked them to come up with a plan to reduce their combined water usage from the Colorado […]
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