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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 […]
Read more »As Colorado River Crisis Grows, An Urgent Call For Western states To ‘Act Now’
June 21st, 2022
Via the Los Angeles Times, an article on how – as the water crisis worsens on the Colorado River – an urgent call for Western states to ‘act now’ has been made: With the Colorado River’s depleted reservoirs continuing to drop to new lows, the federal government has taken the unprecedented step of telling the seven […]
Read more »Saving The Colorado River
June 20th, 2022
Via the Salt Lake City Tribune, commentary on how to save the Colorado River: The 40 million of us who depend upon the Colorado River are using more water than the river can provide. We are relentlessly plundering the water stored in Lake Mead and Lake Powell, to compensate for mounting water deficits. As these […]
Read more »The Southwest’s Unchecked Thirst for Colorado River Water Could Prove Devastating Upstream
June 20th, 2022
Via CNN, an article on how the Southwest’s unchecked thirst for Colorado River water could prove devastating upstream: Among those who love to chase trout with flies made of feathers, just the mention of a certain seven-mile stretch of Utah’s Green River can turn a hardened man rhapsodic. “I’ve guided in New Zealand, Chile, Argentina, […]
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