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Western US Drought Brings Great Salt Lake To Lowest Level On Record
July 8th, 2022
Via Terra Daily, an article on how western US drought has brought Great Salt Lake to its lowest level on record: Water in Utah’s Great Salt Lake has fallen to its lowest level ever recorded, authorities announced this week, a result of the ongoing drought impacting the western United States which scientists warn has been […]
Read more »U.S. Southwest Is Bone Dry and Key Water Sources Are At Risk
July 6th, 2022
Via Politico, a look at how climate change and worsening drought have driven water stores in the U.S. southwest to dangerous lows. Now the federal government is telling states to drastically cut back: California and six other Western states have less than 60 days to pull off a seemingly impossible feat: Cut a multi-way deal […]
Read more »Water Security: Now A Key US Foreign Policy Priority
June 30th, 2022
Via GreenBiz, an article on water security now becoming a key part of US foreign policy: For the first time, the United States government will approach water scarcity as a national security issue, Vice President Kamala Harris said this week. The policy shift is part of the newly announced White House Action Plan on Global Water […]
Read more »Industrial Agriculture Is Threatened By Access To Key Resources From Water To Healthy Soils
June 30th, 2022
Via Forbes, an article on how industrial agriculture is threatened by access to key resources from water to healthy soils: As a devastating and historic drought from Illinois to Texas to California grinds on, sophisticated mapping and data projection bring more bad news: Agricultural areas are among the places in the U.S. experiencing the highest temperature […]
Read more »A Water Strategy for the Parched West
June 30th, 2022
Via The Conversation, a report on the idea of having cities pay farmers to install more efficient irrigation systems as a way of helping water availability in the parched West: “Are you going to run out of water?” is the first question people ask when they find out I’m from Arizona. The answer is that some […]
Read more »The Vanishing Rio Grande
June 25th, 2022
Via Yale e360, a report on the Rio Grande, which has long been impacted by withdrawals for agriculture and other uses, is now struggling with rising temperatures and an unprecedented drought: Hiking through the emerald green canopy of the bosque, or riverside cottonwood forest, near downtown Albuquerque, Tricia Snyder, an advocate for WildEarth Guardians, believes zero […]
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