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The Colorado River Crisis
August 4th, 2022
Via The New York Times, commentary on the crisis facing the Colorado River: It’s past time to get real about the Southwest’s hardest-working river. About 40 million people rely on the Colorado River as it flows from Wyoming to Mexico. But overuse and climate change have contributed to its reservoirs drying up at such a […]
Read more »US Southwest: Water Wars Come To The Suburbs
August 2nd, 2022
Via the New Yorker, a look at how a community near Scottsdale, Arizona, is running out of water and, amid the finger-pointing, the real question is: how many developments will be next: The best gossip you’re likely to hear in Rio Verde Foothills, Arizona, is about water. Last month, when a few residents stopped by […]
Read more »Drought In The American West
July 23rd, 2022
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a report on drought in the US west: As of July 12, nearly 45 percent of the U.S. and Puerto Rico is in drought, a 14 percent increase since mid-June. The federal Bureau of Reclamation gives Colorado River states a 60-day deadline to develop an emergency plan to conserve water. […]
Read more »Rio Grande Runs Dry In Albuquerque For First Time In 40 Years
July 23rd, 2022
Via the Washington Post, an article on the Rio Grande river which has run dry in Albuquerque for the first time in 40 years: A stretch of the Rio Grande near Albuquerque that supplies farmers with water and a habitat for an array of aquatic life is drying — an unsettling sighting of climate change’s effects […]
Read more »Big Water Pipelines, an Old Pursuit, Still Alluring in Drying U.S. West
July 22nd, 2022
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a look at how large-scale water engineering projects like the Los Angeles Aqueduct ushered in the modern era of the American West. More pipelines and water transfers have been proposed or are under construction in the drying region: As the region’s climate becomes drier, more pipelines are being proposed despite […]
Read more »Drought In US West: Re-Writing the Story of America’s Drylands
July 16th, 2022
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, an interesting commentary on the drought in the US west: Harsh and unrelenting. But also transformative? The dry conditions blanketing much of the American West are setting records nearly every week. Lakes Mead and Powell, the country’s largest reservoirs by capacity, dropped to new lows this year. The Great Salt […]
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