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The American West Is Drying Out: Things Will Get Ugly
June 22nd, 2021
Via CNN, commentary on drought in the US West: The incredible pictures of a depleted Lake Mead, on the Nevada-Arizona border, illustrate the effects of drought brought on by climate change. Later this year, the US government will almost certainly declare the first-ever water shortage along the Colorado River. Maps show more than a quarter of the US […]
Read more »As a Hot, Dry Summer Begins in California, More Water Wells Are Failing
June 17th, 2021
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, an article on California’s drought: On Memorial Day, while many Californians were celebrating the unofficial start to summer, the owners of the home off of County Road 200 were contemplating a loss. That day, the homeowners in northern Glenn County submitted an anonymous report to a state database indicating that their drinking […]
Read more »Common Misconceptions About Water Security
June 10th, 2021
Via Sustainable Waters, commentary on common misconceptions about water security: Seems like every day brings another news story about the water crisis in the Western US. Never in my lifetime have I seen such an intense drought spanning such a wide geographic sweep: from West Texas to the Rio Grande to the Colorado River to […]
Read more »The West Can End the Water Wars Now
June 10th, 2021
Courtesy of The Atlantic, an article on how, while far-right radicals in Southern Oregon are threatening to bust open an irrigation canal, the region could be a model for managing watersheds in a warmer world: In my experience, out here in the West, people are, by and large, aggrieved. This is not entirely their fault. […]
Read more »Are We Inching Towards Actual Violence Over Access to Water?
June 8th, 2021
Via Esquire, commentary on water stress in the southwest USA: Here at the shebeen, one of the larger elements in our portfolio is water—specifically, the increasing political salience of water, especially in the West, where they are experiencing such profound drought conditions that the Hoover Dam, of all things, is losing its reason for being. […]
Read more »Drought Spreads In US Northwest
June 5th, 2021
Via NPR, an article on growing impact of drought in the US northwest: Nicole Berg’s stunted wheat field is so short and sparse she doesn’t think the combine can even reach the wheat without, as she puts it, eating rocks. “Combines don’t like dirt and rocks,” Berg says, standing amid the damaged rows. “They get […]
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