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Hoover Dam Made Life in the West Possible. Or So We Thought.
May 19th, 2021
Courtesy of The New York Times, an OpEd on water scarcity in the U.S. west: Few things force you to confront hubris and genius at the same time as much as the magnificent harness on the Colorado River that created the largest reservoir in the United States. To build Hoover Dam in the 1930s, an army of […]
Read more »Extremely Dry Conditions Spill Across the American West
May 14th, 2021
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a report on how drought and climate change are driving drought in the US west: Spring is generally a time of renewal for the watersheds of the western United States. Warmed by the lengthening days, the region’s towering mountain ranges shed their mantle of snow, releasing freshets of water into […]
Read more »Fish or farmers? Drought Declaration Would Trigger New War over California Water
May 6th, 2021
Via The Sacramento Bee, an article on how Governor Newsom’s drought declaration would trigger a new war over California water: When a bipartisan group of state legislators held a press conference last week to demand that Gov. Gavin Newsom declare a statewide drought emergency, they assembled at a withered farm field east of Fresno, complete with piles […]
Read more »Water Created California and The West, but Will Drought Finish Them Off?
May 2nd, 2021
Via the LA Times, an article on the U.S. west’s increasing problem with water scarcity: In what may become an iconic image for drought-stricken California, Gov. Gavin Newsom stood on the parched bed of Lake Mendocino on April 21 to announce an emergency declaration for Sonoma and Mendocino counties. “I’m standing currently 40 feet underwater,” he said, […]
Read more »Drought-Hit California Orders Nestlé to Stop Pumping Millions of Gallons of Water
April 29th, 2021
Via The Guardian, a report on California’s efforts to stop Nestlé from siphoning millions of gallons of water out of California’s San Bernardino forest California water officials have moved to stop Nestlé from siphoning millions of gallons of water out of California’s San Bernardino forest, which it bottles and sells as Arrowhead brand water, as drought […]
Read more »Interstate Water Wars: Heating Up Along With The Climate
April 19th, 2021
Via The Conversation, a look at how U.S. interstate water wars are heating up along with the climate: Interstate water disputes are as American as apple pie. States often think a neighboring state is using more than its fair share from a river, lake or aquifer that crosses borders. Currently the U.S. Supreme Court has on […]
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