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Reckoning Ahead for Arizona as Water Imbalance Grows on Colorado River
May 18th, 2017
Via Water Deeply, a report on the impact of reduced Colorado River water in the U.S. Southwest where Arizona could suffer the most pain if Lake Mead’s shrinkage triggers a shortage declaration: The Central Arizona Project aqueduct system is shown west out of the Phoenix metro area. The aqueduct meanders more than 300 miles to […]
Read more »Rising Tide: America Has A Water Crisis No One Is Talking About
May 11th, 2017
Via Vox, a very good article on what is likely to be a trigger for a new wave of water politics in the United States’ near future – namely, outdated infrastructure making water too expensive for millions of families: Access to clean water is a basic human right. Yet for 14 million US households, or 12 percent […]
Read more »The US Global Water Strategy 2017 Under President Trump
April 5th, 2017
Via Future Directions International, some speculation on the US global water strategy 2017 under President Trump: President Donald Trump’s administration – along with the US Agency for Aid and Development and the State Department – must produce a Global Water Strategy (GWS) and submit it to Congress by 1 October 2017. This document will outline […]
Read more »Water & Power: A California Heist
March 15th, 2017
Via FastCo, a report on how the battle for water is not just happening in a far-off desert across the globe, but also right here at home: Water & Power: A California Heist—which airs on the National Geographic Channel tonight—unveils how a handful of wealthy agribusinessmen and speculators seized control of dwindling groundwater reserves as a historic […]
Read more »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 […]
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