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Kansas Farmers Dramatically and Profitably Pare Water for Irrigation
April 17th, 2025
Via Circle of Blue, a report on how a much lower draw on Ogallala Aquifer has not hindered region’s giant farm economy. To save a dying aquifer – or at least their piece of it – a group of roughly 60 farmers in northwest Kansas decided on a self-imposed diet. The move a dozen years […]
Read more »South Texas Developers Make a Sales Pitch to Sell Groundwater. Will Laredo Buy It?
April 17th, 2025
Via Inside Climate News, a report on how Laredo has long sought a secondary water supply to supplement the Rio Grande. A development in Webb County could provide a solution—but one with a hefty price tag. The Walker family property at the intersection of I-35 and US-83 in Webb County is a rugged expanse of […]
Read more »Mexico To Send Water To Texas Farmers as US Treaty Threat Grows
April 12th, 2025
Via The Guardian, a report on how Mexico’s failure to keep up 81-year-old water-sharing treaty has sparked a diplomatic spat with the US: Mexico will make an immediate water delivery to Texas farmers to help make up its shortfall under a treaty that has strained US relations and prompted tariff threats by Donald Trump, said Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, […]
Read more »Trump’s Denial of Mexico’s Colorado River Request Sparks Concerns Over Future Water Negotiations
April 5th, 2025
Via The Hill, an article on the Trump administration’s unprecedented decision to deny a delivery of water to Mexico: The Trump administration’s unprecedented decision to deny a delivery of water to Mexico is raising alarm among experts, who fear it could jeopardize future cross-border negotiations in an increasingly thirsty region. The refusal, which marked the first such rejection in […]
Read more »Data Centers a Small, But Growing Factor in Arizona’s Water Budget
April 2nd, 2025
Via Circle of Blue, a report on the water footprint of Arizona’s growing data center industry: It was supposed to be called Cipriani, a master planned community with more than 9,700 homes at the western fringe of this sprawling desert city in central Arizona. Plans have changed. One regional growth industry – housing – is […]
Read more »‘Water Is the New Oil’ as Texas Cities Square Off Over Aquifers
March 31st, 2025
Via Inside Climate News, a look at how two cities and the Texas A&M University System are suing to stop a project that would pump up to 89 million gallons per day of groundwater 80 miles away to other boomtowns in Central Texas: In Central Texas, a bitter fight over a $1 billion water project […]
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