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New Water Wars Coming To The American West?
July 8th, 2021
Via the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, an article on new water wars that may be coming to the US West as the drought continues: Water has been generating conflicts and controversies in the U.S. for centuries, but the American West could be heading toward the most severe water shortages and skirmishes in the nation’s history. The […]
Read more »Why Water Levels in Megadrought-Impacted Southwestern States Have Experts Concerned
July 4th, 2021
Via ABC News, an article on why water levels in megadrought-impacted Southwestern states have some experts concerned: California was once the site of a gold rush. But now arguably one of the most precious commodities in parts of the state and in the Southwest is something else entirely — water — as the region grapples […]
Read more »‘Megadrought’ Along Border Strains US-Mexico Water Relations
July 4th, 2021
Via SmartWater Magazine, an article on how the United States and Mexico are tussling over their dwindling shared water supplies after years of unprecedented heat and insufficient rainfall: The United States and Mexico are tussling over their dwindling shared water supplies after years of unprecedented heat and insufficient rainfall. Sustained drought on the middle-lower Rio Grande since the mid-1990s […]
Read more »In California Water May Be The Most Valuable Crop Of All
June 29th, 2021
Courtesy of The New York Times, an article on how drought in California is upending the food supply and changing farmers’ decision about their business: In America’s fruit and nut basket, water is now the most precious crop of all. It explains why, amid a historic drought parching much of the American West, a grower […]
Read more »Day Zero On The Colorado River
June 29th, 2021
Via Sustainable Waters, an article on the increasing water stress on the Colorado River: The US Bureau of Reclamation, in its most recently published “24 Month Study,” projects that Lake Powell on the Colorado River will be three-quarters empty by New Years Day. There are three reasons that Lake Powell is drying up: (1) natural […]
Read more »Decades-long ‘Megadroughts’ in U.S. Southwest and Central Plains More Likely Due to Climate Change
June 26th, 2021
Via Circle of Blue, a report on how droughts that are extreme by today’s standards will be normal by the end of the century: If the world continues to add carbon to the atmosphere at current rates, ‘megadroughts’ lasting more than two decades will be commonplace by the end of the century in the driest […]
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