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For the Future of Water Conservation, Look to … Los Angeles?
June 29th, 2025
Courtesy of The New York Times, a report on how years of drought forced the city to rethink its water usage and, almost under the radar, to remake its identity. You’ve probably come across more stories about water woes in California than you can recall, so you may feel you’ve had enough for a while. […]
Read more »The Colorado River Is Running Low, But The Groundwater Status Is Even Worse
May 29th, 2025
Via the Washington Post, an article on a new study showing that the Colorado River Basin has lost twice as much groundwater since 2003 as water taken out of its reservoirs: The dwindling flow of the Colorado River has alarmed the American West for years, but the water losses happening underground are even worse, according to […]
Read more »Trump Forces Mexico to Share More Water Along the Rio Grande
May 29th, 2025
Via Circle of Blue, a report on how President’s stern hydro diplomacy is criticized as temporary and damaging: Mexico’s announcement late last month that it would send water to the United States to meet its treaty requirement to meet the needs of residents in the Rio Grande Valley was seen by President Claudia Sheinbaum as a step […]
Read more »Tribal Interests in the Future of the Colorado River
May 22nd, 2025
Via Native American Rights Fund, an article on Tribal interests in the future of the Colorado River: The Colorado River Basin is home to thirty federally recognized Tribal Nations,[i] each with unique histories, cultures, and relationships to the Colorado River and its tributaries. These Tribal Nations rely on the River for various purposes, including cultural and […]
Read more »Are Data Centers a Threat to the Great Lakes?
May 22nd, 2025
Via Circle of Blue, a report on one of the poorest cities in Michigan which has a proposed $3 billion data center as a potential lifeline — but environmentalists and locals warn of high costs to water, climate and community: Benton Harbor on Lake Michigan’s southeast coast is known to visitors for its vacation feel […]
Read more »The Data Center Boom In The Desert
May 20th, 2025
Via MIT Technology Review, a look at how the AI race is transforming northwestern Nevada into one of the world’s largest data-center markets—and sparking fears of water strains in the nation’s driest state: In the high desert east of Reno, Nevada, construction crews are flattening the golden foothills of the Virginia Range, laying the foundations […]
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