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Conflict over U.S.-Mexico Water Treaty Escalates as Farmers Take La Boquilla Dam
October 3rd, 2020
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a look at growing water tension between the U.S. and Mexico: Tensions between Mexico and the United States over water intensified this month as hundreds of Mexican farmers seized control of La Boquilla dam in protest over mandatory water releases. The protesters came from parched Chihuahua state, nearly 100 square […]
Read more »Water Reckoning Looms In New Mexico’s Future
October 3rd, 2020
Via The New Mexico Political Report, an article on New Mexico’s water challenges: Water experts painted a grim picture of New Mexico’s water future during a panel discussion focused on water policy and management. The panel was hosted by Retake Democracy, an advocacy group based in Santa Fe. Dave Gutzler, a professor at UNM’s Earth and […]
Read more »A View of The United States’ Water-Stressed Future
September 23rd, 2020
Via Grist.org, a look at a cross-state aquifer spat in the U.S., a view of a water-stressed future: Just ahead of the Great Recession, in 2005, Carolyn Chism Hardy got the news that the Coors brewery where she worked would close for good the next year. Following a merger with Molson, her higher-ups told her, the Memphis, Tennessee, […]
Read more »US Official Attacks China’s ‘Manipulation’ of the Mekong
September 5th, 2020
Via The Diplomat, an article on how Southeast Asia’s mighty river is quickly becoming a new front in US-China competition: A senior American diplomat has criticized China’s string of hydropower dams on the Mekong River, becoming the latest U.S. official to raise alarm about their possible effects on countries downstream. David R. Stilwell, assistant secretary of […]
Read more »Missing: 1.5 Billion Tons Of Water
August 8th, 2020
Via The Washington Post, a look at the impact of the Colorado River’s decreasing flows: On New Year’s Day in 2018, Paul Kehmeier and his father drove up Grand Mesa until they got to the county line, 10,000 feet above sea level. Instead of the three to five feet of snow that should have been […]
Read more »In Parched US Southwest, Warm Spring Renews Threat of ‘Megadrought’
July 11th, 2020
Via The New York Times, an article on the US Southwest’s drought concerns: Here at 12,000 feet on the Continental Divide, only vestiges of the winter snowpack remain, scattered white patches that have yet to melt and feed the upper Colorado River, 50 miles away. That’s normal for mid-June in the Rockies. What’s unusual this […]
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