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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 […]
Read more »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 […]
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