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Indian Tribes: Water Dealmakers In Drying Colorado River Basin
July 1st, 2015
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a very interesting look at the role that native Americans – who hold 20 percent of the Colorado River basin’s water rights – will have in shaping the future of the Southwest: Mired in drought and torched by one of the hottest years ever measured, the seven states of the […]
Read more »US Groundwater: On The Move Overseas In Food Exports
July 1st, 2015
Via Smithsonian Magazine, an interesting look at how US groundwater is leaving the country in the form of food exports: Freshwater in the United States is really on the move. Much of the water pulled from underground reservoirs called aquifers gets incorporated into crops and other foodstuffs, which are then are shuttled around the country […]
Read more »California Farmers Dig Deeper For Water, Sipping Their Neighbors Dry
June 5th, 2015
Courtesy of The New York Times, an interesting report on water scarcity in California: A farm served by the San Luis Canal Company, which manages the water supply for about 45,000 acres in California. Early one morning in late April, Parvinder Hundal stood beside a hole in the ground at the edge of his almond […]
Read more »Where The River Runs Dry: Southwestern America’s Water Crisis
May 29th, 2015
Courtesy of The New Yorker, a detailed look at the US southwest’s water crisis: Our pilot, David Kunkel, asked me to retrieve his oxygen bottle from under my seat, and when I handed it to him he gripped the plastic breathing tube with his teeth and opened the valve. We had taken off from Boulder […]
Read more »Federal Dollars Financing The Water Crisis In The American West
May 28th, 2015
Via Pro Public, an interesting detailed look at how federal dollars are financing the water crisis in the West: STATE ROUTE 87, the thin band of pavement that approaches the mostly shuttered town of Coolidge, Ariz., cuts through some of the least hospitable land in the country. The valley of red and brown sand is interrupted […]
Read more »During California’s Drought, It Is Time To Move Beyond Agriculture Versus Cities
May 18th, 2015
Via the Los Angeles Times, an interesting OpEd piece on the California water crisis and the need – during such a challenging time – to look for collective solutions versus divisive politics: At this point, just about every Californian with a pulse knows that agriculture uses 80% of the state’s water, and cities 20%. This […]
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