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Federal Court Stalls Las Vegas Water Grab
September 9th, 2017
Via Summit County Citizens Voice, a report on a planned $15.5 billion project that some feel would deplete aquifers and springs in the eastern Nevada desert, pumping it more than 250 miles south to metropolitan Las Vegas: A federal court has at least temporarily stifled a major water grab in Nevada, finding that the Bureau of […]
Read more »U.S. and Mexico Finalizing Colorado River Water-Sharing Deal
August 14th, 2017
Via USA Today, a report on progress between the U.S. and Mexico on a new Colorado River water sharing agreement: The U.S. and Mexican governments may be sharply at odds on President Trump’s plan for a border wall, but when it comes to water – and the potential for a major shortage along the Colorado River […]
Read more »The Fight Over Water: Business and Politics Collide In California
August 12th, 2017
Via Entrepreneur Magazine, a look at the controversial Cadiz water project in southern California: Water, as intrinsic to our lives as the air we breathe, is becoming increasingly rare and valuable. We must stop taking it for granted. The water situation in California is dire, and some experts predict that the state — our largest […]
Read more »Two Nations, One Aquifer
July 28th, 2017
Via the Albuquerque Journal, an article on U.S. and Mexican management of the Mesilla Bolson aquifer: Deep underground, beneath the 18-foot steel wall that divides parts of the U.S. and Mexico border, the aquifer upon which both sides depend pays the barrier no mind. The water is there for the taking, first come, first served. […]
Read more »U.S. Midwest: Groundwater Pumping Drying Streams, Driving Fish Extinctions
July 12th, 2017
Via EurekAlert, a sobering article on the impact of groundwater pumping in the Midwest: Farmers in the Great Plains of Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas and the panhandle of Texas produce about one-sixth of the world’s grain, and water for these crops comes from the High Plains Aquifer — often known as the Ogallala Aquifer — the […]
Read more »Water: One of Canada’s Biggest Potential Exports
May 29th, 2017
Via Business In Vancouver, commentary on how Canadian water could be one of the country’s biggest commodity export opportunities by 2030: It’s 2030, and you are headed to a public hearing on a proposed new pipeline project. Not an oil pipeline, but a freshwater pipeline that would move water from British Columbia to Southern California. […]
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