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California: Water Wars On The Boil
July 12th, 2008
Courtesy of PBS’s NewsHour, a detailed report on the fact that – for the first time since the early 1990s – California is facing a summer of potential water shortages. The rains tapered off this spring, producing the second dry year in a row and causing Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to declare a statewide drought. As […]
Read more »Great Lakes Water Compact – Update
July 12th, 2008
Via Water Wired, news that the Great Lakes Compact is one step closer to reality. As the article notes, all eight US Great Lakes Basin states have approved the measure; Congress now has to give its blessing. The Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec have signed on. Although Quebec does not border any of the […]
Read more »Water War Brewing? Canada, U.S., NAFTA, and Water Exports
July 12th, 2008
Niagara This Week offered an interesting article touching on many issues, including whether or not NAFTA protects water exports from Canada. As the report notes: “… millions of U.S. residents living in places such as California, Nevada, and Arizona could soon be looking this way with a hungry glint in their eye. And it won’t […]
Read more »Nevada and Utah Argue Over Water
July 5th, 2008
Courtesy of The Salt Lake City Tribune, a detailed look at the increasing tension between Utah and Nevada – the two driest states in America - over ever-shrinking water resources. As the article notes: “…On moonless nights here in the Utah-Nevada borderlands of Snake Valley, the naked eye can see five planets, countless stars and […]
Read more »The Queen of Sin City’s Royal Flush
June 22nd, 2008
Via The Las Vegas Sun, an interesting look at Pat Mulroy of the Southern Nevada Water Authority and the actions that Las Vegas has taken to secure water supplies. As the article notes: “…Water is fuel. Without it, runaway growth across the Southwest would not be possible. To witness what cheap, federally subsidized water out […]
Read more »T. Boone Pickens: Water is the New Oil
June 13th, 2008
As recently reported by Business Week, T. Boone Pickens thinks water is the “new oil’ and he’s betting $100 million that he is correct. As the article notes: “…Pickens has also bought up the rights to a considerable amount of water that lies below this part of the High Plains in a vast aquifer that […]
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