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Amid Dire Colorado River Outlook, States Plan to Tap Their Lake Mead Savings Accounts
June 5th, 2021
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, an article on how – this year and next – Arizona and California intend to draw on water they banked in the big reservoir, even as water levels drop: Key Takeaways: Shared by seven states and Mexico, the Colorado Basin provides about 40 million Americans with a portion of their […]
Read more »U.S. Southwest, Already Parched, Sees ‘Virtual Water’ Drain Abroad
June 2nd, 2021
Via Undark, an article on how, as the Colorado River Basin enters yet another year of drought, global companies are worsening the water crisis: Driving into southern California’s Palo Verde Valley from the Arizona border, fields of vibrant green appear out of the desert like a mirage. Near the town of Blythe, water from the Colorado […]
Read more »Amid Historic Drought, a New Water War in the West
June 2nd, 2021
Courtesy of The New York Times, an article on the drought crisis which has erupted in the Klamath Basin along the California-Oregon border, with fish dying en masse and farmers infuriated that they have been cut off from their main water source: Through the marshlands along the Oregon-California border, the federal government a century ago […]
Read more »The Central California Town That Keeps Sinking
May 28th, 2021
Via The New York Times, an article on Corcoran, California which has been slowly but steadily collapsing, a situation caused primarily not by nature but agricultural use of groundwater: In California’s San Joaquin Valley, the farming town of Corcoran has a multimillion-dollar problem. It is almost impossible to see, yet so vast it takes NASA scientists […]
Read more »First-Ever Colorado River Water Shortage Is Now Almost Certain
May 28th, 2021
Via CNN, an article on new projections that show a Colorado River water shortage is now almost certain: Thousands of people will celebrate Memorial Day this weekend on the water of Lake Mead, just 24 miles east of Las Vegas on the border of Arizona and Nevada. What they may not realize is that the oasis […]
Read more »Amid American West Megadrought, Montana’s Reservoirs Are Running Dry
May 24th, 2021
Via Circle of Blue, an article on the impact of drought in Montana: An extreme megadrought is sweeping across the American West, a consequence of climate change that is threatening urban water allotment, indigenous water security, and ecosystem balance. The pain is now being felt in Montana, where officials worry that a historically dry spring will shrink […]
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