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New York City Faces Risk Of Running Out Of Water – Fast
September 23rd, 2021
Via The Independent, an article on the U.S. water scarcity crisis: New York City faces significant risk of running out of water by 2050, according to a new study. An analysis, published on Tuesday, examined climate risks for the most-populated US counties in the next 30 years, including the threats of wildfire, heatwave, water stress, flooding, hurricane […]
Read more »Polluted Water and American Water Injustice
September 21st, 2021
Courtesy of The Guardian, a report on a American town – predominantly black – which has poisoned water, while a predominantly white town nearby has clean water: Bobbie Clay first realized something was wrong a few years ago. The water at her Benton Harbor, Michigan, home had started coming out of the tap looking “bubbly and […]
Read more »Depleted by Drought, Lakes Powell and Mead Were Doomed From The Beginning
September 13th, 2021
Via The Washington Post, a report on the history of the Colorado River Basin system, how it was designed and the impacts of climate change shed light on why it was destined to fail: For the first time, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation issued a water shortage for Lake Mead starting in 2022. Located between southern Nevada and […]
Read more »The Colorado River: Hung Out to Dry?
September 13th, 2021
Via Slate, commentary on the crisis affecting the Colorado River: On Aug. 16, the Bureau of Reclamation, a federal agency that is part of the Interior Department, held a press conference announcing that for the first time in the 99 years of governmental record-keeping, it was declaring a water shortage on the Colorado River. Starting […]
Read more »Western US Faces Future Of Prolonged Drought
September 13th, 2021
Via Terra Daily, an article on the US West’s dry future: Seasonal summer rains have done little to offset drought conditions gripping the western United States, with California and Nevada seeing record July heat and moderate-to-exceptional drought according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Now, new research is showing how drought in the […]
Read more »California’s ‘Cantaloupe Center’ Struggles As Drought Pummels U.S. West
August 31st, 2021
Courtesy of The Washington Post, a report on the impact of drought on California’s ‘Cantaloupe Center’: This small town in California’s agriculture-rich Central Valley advertises itself as the “Cantaloupe Center of the World.” But as relentless drought punishes California and the West, the land is drying up and the cantaloupes are disappearing. Farmers have let large […]
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