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As California’s Big Cities Fail To Rein In Water Use, Rural Communities Are Already Tapped Out
June 6th, 2022
Via CNN, an article on how – as California’s big cities fail to rein in their water use – rural communities are already tapped out: Gary Briggs’ family hasn’t had water coming out of their private well for over a decade, after a multi-year drought and overpumping by agriculture and industry. Now, the eight-acre farm in West […]
Read more »Drought-Stricken US Warned of Looming ‘Dead Pool’
June 6th, 2022
Via BBC, an article on the risk that Lake Mead will fall to such a low level that Hoover Dam may cease to function: A once-in-a-lifetime drought in the western part of the US is turning up dead bodies – but that’s the least of people’s worries. Sitting on the Arizona-Nevada border near Las Vegas, […]
Read more »In Worsening Drought, Southern California Water Restrictions Take Effect
June 2nd, 2022
Via The Washington Post, a report on new restrictions in Southern California: The forecast for Southern California grass is yellow and brown from here on out. On Wednesday, new restrictions on outdoor water use go into effect for more than 6 million residents in the Los Angeles area. The rules, set by the Metropolitan Water District of […]
Read more »Once Declared “Drought-Proof”, Climate Change Is Pushing El Paso To Its Limits
June 1st, 2022
Via MIT Technology Review, a report on how El Paso spent decades preparing for drought, but now climate change is forcing the city to ask just how far adaptation can go: About 20 miles outside El Paso, Texas, on a warm afternoon just before the fall harvest, Ramon Tirres Jr. turns his truck between two fields […]
Read more »‘Flash Droughts’ U.S. Midwest’s Next Big Climate Threat
May 26th, 2022
Via Grist, an article on ‘flash droughts’, potentially the Midwest’s next big climate threat: September in Oklahoma is typically a rainy season, when farmers take advantage of the state’s third-wettest month to plant winter wheat. But last year, many were caught off guard by abnormally dry weather that descended without warning. In the span of […]
Read more »With Severe Drought, Urgent Need To Rework Colorado River Compact
May 20th, 2022
Via the LA Times, an article on the need to rework the Colorado River compact: One hundred years after a landmark agreement divided the waters of the Colorado River among Western states, the pact is now showing its age as a hotter and drier climate has shrunk the river. The flow of the Colorado has […]
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