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Small Towns Grow Desperate for Water in California
August 15th, 2021
Courtesy of New York Times, a report on how California’s drought is revealing that – perhaps even more than rainfall – it is money and infrastructure that dictate who has sufficient water during the state’s increasingly frequent dry spells: As a measure of both the nation’s creaking infrastructure and the severity of the drought gripping […]
Read more »The Colorado River Basin’s Daunting New Math
August 15th, 2021
Via Circle of Blue, an article examining how the Colorado River basin’s big reservoirs have fallen to uncharted territory, with a dire forecast in the future: Lakes Mead and Powell, icons of 20th century water engineering in the American West, are in bad shape. The story of their decline is written into the edges of the […]
Read more »Household Wells Are Failing In Northern California
August 13th, 2021
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a look at the impact of drought in Northern California where many household wells are failing: Though it was a sudden death, happening overnight during a record-smashing June heat wave, the demise of Maralee and Noal Childs’s household water well was not entirely unexpected. The Childses live in Glenn County, […]
Read more »Drought-Hit California Town Sinking Into The Ground
August 10th, 2021
Via Seed Daily, an article on the impact of groundwater overuse: “You’ve got too many farmers pumping all around,” complained Raul Atilano. This octogenarian resident of Corcoran, the self-proclaimed farming capital of California, was struggling to make sense of the strangest of phenomena: his already suffering town is sinking, ever so gradually, into the ground. […]
Read more »America’s Water Crisis: Young Farmers Lose hope As Drought Closes In
August 7th, 2021
Via The Guardian, a look at how – as irrigated crops compete with fish for scarce water- farmers in the U.S. West’s Klamath Basin lament they may be the last generation to work the land: They are land rich and resource poor. Most have hundreds of acres of fertile soil, some thousands, but little money […]
Read more »New Residents Flood into the Most Drought-Stricken Counties in U.S.
July 28th, 2021
Courtesy of The Economic Innovation Group, a report on the trend for relocation into the most water scarce regions in the U.S., further exacerbating issues related to drought: The South and Mountain West dominated U.S. population growth over the past decade, yet many of those regions’ fast-growing counties are among the most drought-prone places in the country. […]
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