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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 […]
Read more »40 Million People Rely On The Colorado River Which Is Drying Up Fast
August 29th, 2021
Courtesy of The New York Times, an article on the Colorado River: On a 110-degree day several years ago, surrounded by piles of sand and rock in the desert outside of Las Vegas, I stepped into a yellow cage large enough to fit three standing adults, and was lowered 600 feet through a black hole […]
Read more »Fight Over Florida Water Has Some Surprising Winners
August 21st, 2021
Via Christian Science Monitor, an article on how – when it comes to decisions affecting Florida’s groundwater – business interests usually trump environmental concerns, but that may be changing: Burt Eno peers down through the surface of the Rainbow River, examining the sea grasses below. Even though the water has changed over the past mile […]
Read more »U.S. West: Megadry
August 21st, 2021
Via The Economist, an article on the large number of Americans moving to a region plagued by a 22-year drought: Weather was the ultimate arbiter in the American West,” Marc Reisner wrote in “Cadillac Desert”, his book on water there, published in 1986. Reisner was musing about the great white winter of 1886, which devastated cattle […]
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