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California Delta: Accustomed To Water Wars, Prepares For Battle
October 5th, 2012
Via the Los Angeles Times, a look at some California landowners planning their fight against two 35-mile underground tunnels that would carry water from the Sacramento River to the giant pumps that fill southbound aqueducts: As a child, Brett Baker learned farming fundamentals from his grandfather, who taught him to drive a tractor and gave […]
Read more »Time for a 21st Century U.S. Water Policy
September 28th, 2012
Courtesy of The Huffington Post, an article on the need for a 21st century water policy in the U.S.: At first glance, threats to the nation’s freshwater might seem less urgent and less important than many of the other economic and foreign policy challenges facing our politicians and policymakers. After all, clean and inexpensive water […]
Read more »U.S. Water Diversion Plan Draws Comparisons With China’s South-North Project
September 28th, 2012
Via China Dialogue, an interesting comparison of a California plan to China’a massive south-north diversion project: Plans for a major water diversion plan in California have been criticised as a political gamble that benefits agribusiness and farmers at the expense of the environment.  California’s governor Jerry Brown is facing mounting obstacles to his 50-year […]
Read more »U.S. / Mexico: Tempers Boil Over Border Water Battle
April 21st, 2012
Via The San Antonio Express, a report on recent tension between the US and Mexico over the Rio Grande: State officials are taking a stand against the binational International Boundary and Water Commissionover the release of Rio Grande water to Mexico. They say the water payments will cause substantial losses to U.S. crops and run […]
Read more »Mexico’s Newest Export to US: Water?
October 17th, 2011
Via Yahoo! News, a report that Mexico may export water to the U.S. if two large desalination plants are developed in the years ahead: “…Mexico ships televisions, cars, sugar and medical equipment to the United States. Soon, it may be sending water north. Western states are looking south of the border for water to fill […]
Read more »The Drying Of The West
January 29th, 2011
Courtesy of The Economist, an interesting report on the dwindling Colorado River and the water scarcity’s effect on the southwestern U.S. STANDING on the Hoover Dam and looking upstream at Lake Mead, America’s largest reservoir, the visitor notices a wide, white band ringing the cliffs. Nicknamed “the bathtub ringâ€, this discolouration comes from minerals that […]
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