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Drilling Deeper: U.S. Groundwater Wells Race Towards Bottom
July 29th, 2019
Via Circle of Blue, an interesting look at how well depths are increasing across the United States: To locate sufficient supplies of fresh water, the nation’s groundwater wells are being drilled deeper and deeper, according to an analysis of more than 10 million well records since the 1950s. “No matter how you slice it, we’re […]
Read more »Risk of Colorado River Decline
March 4th, 2019
Via the Las Vegas Review Journal, an article on the decline of the Colorado River: It supplies water and power to 40 million people from Wyoming to Mexico and irrigates billions of dollars in cropland used to feed millions more. No wonder so many people are worried about the Colorado River. Punishing drought has ravaged […]
Read more »On the Water-Starved Colorado River, Drought Is the New Normal
January 26th, 2019
Via Yale’s e360, an interesting article on the impact that a 19-year drought and climate change in the U.S. southwest is having upon making the region, water managers and users along the Colorado River: In the basement of the University of Arizona’s Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, the fragrant smell of pine hangs in the air as […]
Read more »California’s Water Wars
December 10th, 2018
Courtesy of The Economist, an article on California’s water wars: The federal government and the state of California seem to love suing each other, and have done so dozens of times in the past two years without causing anyone much damage. But President Donald Trump is now threatening to sue the state over control of water. […]
Read more »Utah’s Big Water Grab
August 15th, 2018
Via Outside Magazine, an interesting look at how the retiree oasis of St. George, Utah will explode with growth, turning red rock to bluegrass and slaking its thirst with a new billion-dollar pipeline from the Colorado River: Let us now praise southern Utah! I moved here the high-water spring of 1993, everything I owned in the […]
Read more »Water Wars of Arizona
July 20th, 2018
Courtesy of The New York Times, a detailed look at the battle between industrial agriculture and communities over scarce water in America’s southwest: Early one morning in July 2014, Lori Paup awoke in her new home in the Sulphur Springs Valley of Arizona and began unpacking boxes of clothes, hanging photographs and prepping the day’s […]
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