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The Biggest Potential Water Disaster in the United States
May 12th, 2022
Via The New Yorker Magazine, an article on how – in California – millions of residents and thousands of farmers depend on the Bay-Delta for fresh water, but they can’t agree on how to protect it: The Sacramento is California’s largest river. It arises near the lower slopes of Mt. Shasta, in the northernmost part […]
Read more »Two Largest Reservoirs In California Already At ‘Critically Low Levels’
May 11th, 2022
Via CNN, a report on how the two largest reservoirs in California are already at ‘critically low levels’ and the dry season is just starting Against the backdrop of the water crisis in the Colorado River Basin, where the country’s largest reservoirs are plunging at an alarming rate, California’s two largest reservoirs — Shasta Lake and Lake Oroville […]
Read more »Outlawing Lawns: Las Vegas’ New Approach to Saving Water
May 3rd, 2022
Courtesy of the New York Times, a report on how Las Vegas – with drought and growth taking a toll on the Colorado River, the source of 90 percent of the region’s water – has a new law mandating the removal of turf, patch by patch: It was a perfectly decent patch of lawn, several […]
Read more »Western US Drought Could Last Until 2030
April 27th, 2022
Via National Geographic, a report on the western US drought: There have been brief moments of reprieve in the drought that has stretched on since 2000 in the western United States—a water-rich 2011, a snow-laden 2019—but those breaks have only highlighted the more dramatic feature of the last few decades: unrelenting dryness. Without human-driven climate […]
Read more »Southwest Cities Learn to Thrive Amid Drought
April 27th, 2022
Via Yale e360, an article on how southwestern U.S. cities such as San Diego, Phoenix, and Las Vegas have embraced a host of innovative strategies for conserving and sourcing water, providing these metropolitan areas with ample water supplies to support their growing populations: In the rolling hills around San Diego and its suburbs, the rumble of […]
Read more »Parched Southern California Takes Unprecedented Step of Restricting Outdoor Watering
April 27th, 2022
Via The Guardian, a report on new California restrictions on watering: Southern California officials declared a water shortage emergency Tuesday, and adopted new unprecedented restrictions on outdoor watering that will affect millions of people living in Los Angeles, Ventura and San Bernardino counties. Metropolitan water district of southern California’s resolution will limit outdoor watering to just one […]
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