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How Navajo Are Turning On Taps – Even In Remote, Dry Areas
April 8th, 2022
Via Christian Science Monitor, a report on how Navajo are turning on taps – even in remote, dry areas: Ida Joe flinches a little as the tap sputters, then spurts water into the sink. Cautiously, tentatively, she pushes her hand under the faucet. She feels the water soak her skin and run through her fingers […]
Read more »California Drought May Be Worse Than Currently Believed
April 5th, 2022
Courtesy of The New York Times, commentary on US west’s drought: Outside my lab near Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada of California, new animal tracks are on the snow after a winter of hibernation, bird songs are lofting through the air, and the creek is flowing strongly with water from the melting snow. Spring […]
Read more »How We Drained California Dry
April 2nd, 2022
Via MIT Technology Review, an article on California’s water scarcity challenge: The wind finally blew the other way last night and kicked out the smoke from the burning Sierra. Down here in the flatland of California, we used to regard the granite mountain as a place apart, our getaway. But the distance is no more. […]
Read more »Arizona’s Future Water Shock
March 29th, 2022
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a report on Arizona’s water future: On a Saturday morning in late January a chill wind kicks up dust on the high desert ridge north of Scottsdale where wood skeletons of new homes appear above the mesquite and cactus of the Rio Verde Foothills. Along Rio Verde Drive a white […]
Read more »U.S. Drought Expected to Persist, and Spread, Through the Spring
March 28th, 2022
Courtesy of the New York Times, a report on the U.S. drought which is expected to persist, and spread, through the Spring: Drought conditions are likely to continue across more than half of the continental United States through at least June, straining water supplies and increasing the risk of wildfires, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric […]
Read more »Drop by Drop: Arizona Moves Steadily Closer to Water Peril
March 23rd, 2022
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a report on how severe drought, dead wells, and political divisions are pushing Arizona steadily closer to water supply peril: Nobody who knows Peggy Judd would mistake her for a political progressive. At age 59, Judd is in her second term as one of three supervisors in Cochise County, a nearly 4 million-acre expanse of mesquite and cholla cactus, irrigated cropland, […]
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