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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, […]
Read more »Drought’s Spillover Effect In U.S. West
June 17th, 2022
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, an article on how – in a region latticed with pipelines and canals – the consequences of dry conditions in one basin are exported to neighboring watersheds: The American West has been plumbed into a series of “mega-watersheds.” Because basins are connected by pipelines and canals, drought in one region […]
Read more »Water Security: Now A Key US Foreign Policy Priority
June 15th, 2022
Via Grist, a report on a recent US government decision that water security is now a key US foreign policy priority: 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 […]
Read more »Colorado River Nears ‘Moment Of Reckoning’
June 15th, 2022
Via the Los Angeles Times, an article on major water cutbacks looming as a shrinking Colorado River nears its ‘moment of reckoning’: As the West endures another year of unrelenting drought worsened by climate change, the Colorado River’s reservoirs have declined so low that major water cuts will be necessary next year to reduce risks of […]
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