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U.S. West’s Challenge Is Still Water Scarcity, Wet Winter Or Not
February 28th, 2017
Via the Christian Science Monitor, a detailed look at how – with climate change affecting water supplies already strained by urban growth – states in the Colorado River basin are being forced to innovate and adapt: The number of “For Sale” signs compete with “Open” in the storefronts along the main street in this hilly […]
Read more »The Trump Effect on U.S.-Mexico Water Talks
November 23rd, 2016
Via Politico, commentary on president-elect Donald Trump’s potential impact on a new water-sharing deal over the dwindling supplies from the Colorado River: Negotiators who’ve worked for years are pressing to finish a new water-sharing deal over the dwindling supplies from the Colorado River before president-elect Donald Trump takes office Jan. 20 — or put at risk […]
Read more »Mississippi’s Claim That Tennessee Is Stealing Groundwater Is A U.S. Supreme Court First
October 8th, 2016
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, an interesting look at Mississippi’s lawsuit against Tennessee, the first lawsuit over a shared aquifer to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court: Sometime in the next few months, lawyers for the state of Mississippi will stand before a U.S. Supreme Court-appointed legal expert, clear their throats, and argue that Tennessee, […]
Read more »USA: Irrigation Nation Faces A Dry Future
September 20th, 2016
Via Pacific Standard, an interesting look at how irrigation helped create America’s breadbasket and how it threatens to destroy it: Rick Hammond turned a yellow dial until it locked into place with a hollow clank, and a high-pressure hum filled the air. Across the windswept field, a light started blinking atop a metal contraption that […]
Read more »Native American Water War Reveals Oil’s Fatal Flaw
September 15th, 2016
Via Fusion, a report on an ongoing crisis related to the Dakota Access Pipeline, which is causing some Native Americans to urge the public to change the way water is thought of and valued: Someday water will be worth more than oil. Just like it was for most of human existence until some clever men […]
Read more »Droughtlandia USA
May 25th, 2016
Courtesy of the Pacific Standard, an interesting commentary on what happens when climate change causes Californians to migrate north to Oregon and Washington: In a rumpled suit jacket and faded jeans, Giles Slade stands atop an earthen levee and looks out over a vast expanse of water. It’s mid-November, and the Fraser River runs gray […]
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