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The Rio Grande’s Pecan Problem
September 9th, 2025
Via High Country News, commentary on how Big Ag is threatening New Mexico’s water supply: Green is not the color one expects to see in the cactus-and-yucca-dotted Chihuahuan Desert of southern New Mexico. But for more than a hundred miles along the I-25 corridor, between Truth or Consequences and the Texas border, a rich vein […]
Read more »Mexico Will Not Meet Its Water Treaty Commitments To U.S. By October
September 3rd, 2025
Via TRT Global, a report on why Mexico will not meet its water treaty commitments to the US by October 24: It’s a deadline that is difficult to meet, and only an act of God could help Mexico. By October 24 this year, the North American country is required to share approximately 1 billion cubic […]
Read more »How Does the U.S. Use Water?
August 30th, 2025
Via Construction Physics, a detailed report on how the U.S. uses water: Water infrastructure often gets less attention and focus than other types of infrastructure. Both the Federal Highway Administration and the Department of Energy have annual budgets around $46 billion dollars. The Department of Housing and Urban Development has an annual budget of $60 […]
Read more »As Colorado River Slowly Dries Up, States Angle for Influence over Future Water Rights
August 14th, 2025
Via Renewable Energy World, a look at how – as the Colorado River slowly dries up – states angle for influence over future water rights: The Colorado River is in trouble: Not as much water flows into the river as people are entitled to take out of it. A new idea might change that, but […]
Read more »People Are Flocking To Florida. Will There Be Enough Water For Them?
August 6th, 2025
Via Grist, a look at how climate change, a development boom, and overexploitation of groundwater are draining the Sunshine State: While wading through wetlands in the headwaters of the Everglades, where tall, serrated grasses shelter alligators and water moccasins, agroecologist Elizabeth Boughton described one of Florida’s biggest environmental problems: There’s either too much water, or […]
Read more »Data and Drought: The U.S. West’s Data Centers Suck Water and Power
August 1st, 2025
Via High Country News, a report on how – from simple searches to chatGPT – the big digital buildup in the U.S. west threatens the grid and water supplies: This May, STaX Capital Partners applied for a permit to install turbines fueled by methane from oil wells on Alaska’s North Slope. The temporary facilities would […]
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