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Clean Water Crisis Threatens U.S.
April 26th, 2016
Via The Hill, a sobering summary of the water challenges facing America: The United States is on the verge of a national crisis that could mean the end of clean, cheap water. Hundreds of cities and towns are at risk of sudden and severe shortages, either because available water is not safe to drink or […]
Read more »California’s Water Wars Heat Up: SoCal Makes A Land Grab
April 13th, 2016
Via Wired, a updated look at the latest developments in California where a thirsty southern part of the state eyes the north’s water resources aggressively: THE ONE BIG thing to understand about water in California is this: The north has it, the south wants it. Yes, sure, pedants will say it’s more complicated. That you need to consider pre-1914 water […]
Read more »Water: Precious Commodity Sparks Fear, Feuds and Lawsuits On U.S. Great Plains
April 6th, 2016
Via E&E Publishing, a report on It took 10 million years for rainfall and glacial runoff to fill the sprawling Ogallala Aquifer. It took a century to drain a third of it and threaten its future. Spread under parts of eight Great Plains states — Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas and […]
Read more »The Case For Canada Selling Its Water
January 15th, 2016
Via Corporate Knights, commentary on the potential for Canada to sell its water: If you want to see water start a fire, suggest to a Canadian that their country should consider selling any of its very large water reserves – a fifth of all the Earth’s standing surface freshwater, and seven per cent of the […]
Read more »Farmers Try Political Force To Twist Open California’s Taps
January 1st, 2016
Via The New York Times, a detailed look at how farmers are using political force to obtain more water for their fields: The message that Maria L. Gutierrez gave legislators on Capitol Hill was anguished and blunt: California’s historic drought had not merely left farmland idle. It had destroyed Latino farm workers’ jobs, shuttered Latino […]
Read more »Wisconsin Groundwater Dispute: A Warning Signal For The Eastern United States
October 26th, 2015
Via Circle of Blue, a report on how water problems in states east of the Mississippi River mirror those of the dry American West: When it pulled back from the North American mid-continent roughly 10,000 years ago, the Laurentide Ice Sheet left the state of Wisconsin a lovely basket of geological parting gifts: rich soils, […]
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