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Water War of Words
July 28th, 2009
Via WaterCrunch, an interesting list of the top 10 water war “quotes” that have emerged thus far in the ongoing battle over scarce water resources in the southeastern United States in which a federal judge recently ruled the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been illegally reallocating water from Lake Lanier to meet metro Atlanta’s […]
Read more »Central Texas Water Wars
June 28th, 2009
Via The Burnt Orange Report, an article on the evolving political water wars in central Texas. As the report notes: “…We’ve been expecting it for a long time, and now a Great Water War has come to Central Texas. The Lower Colorado River Authority has abandoned its water agreement with San Antonio, scrapped millions in […]
Read more »Southwest U.S.: A Thirsty Las Vegas Looks Northward
April 12th, 2009
Via Time, an interesting article on the further developing water conflicts in the southwest U.S., namely between a thirsty Las Vegas and communities to the north. As the article notes: “The valley below Nevada’s Snake mountains should not have much to fear from Las Vegas. Its dun-colored terrain daubed with the green of shrubs, meadow […]
Read more »Hands on The Tap: China, Israel, and U.S.
March 31st, 2009
Via The Nation, an interesting article positing further that the next resource wars will be fought, not over oil, but over water. As the article notes: “…Maude Barlow, senior advisor to the United Nations on water issues, wrote that the way in which we view water “will in large part determine whether our future is […]
Read more »The Great Lakes: An International Water Bank With Very Low Interest Rates
February 14th, 2009
Courtesy of The Vancouver Sun, an interesting article on a report that indicates even the Great Lakes aren’t great enough to sustain North Americans’ reckless water use in the event of a continentwide water shortage. As the piece notes: “…I think we have to stop considering the Great Lakes as the thing that’s going to […]
Read more »Troubled Waters Between El Paso & Ciudad Juarez
January 26th, 2009
Via the Border Wall As Architecture blog, some information on the water problems at the El Paso/Ciudad Juárez border resulting from the fact that they share an aquifer and surface source (the Rio Grande), but have few effective ways to prevent over-use and/or contamination. As the article notes: “…An arid landscape and climate as well […]
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