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Rings Around Southwest’s Deepening Drought: The Noose Around the Neck of the Region?
January 9th, 2008
An interesting article at Modeshift examines further examples of the signs of a changing climate and an economy that has been slow to respond. Focused primarily on the U.S. southwest, where supply constraints are affecting multiple state & local jurisdictions, the report also takes a look at the U.S. southeast and the longing eye with […]
Read more »Worse To Come: Global Warming’s Impact on West’s Water Crisis
January 1st, 2008
As reported by Treehugger, some researchers – in the face of the American West’s recent bout with several severe water shortages – have stepped forward and confidently asserted that there does indeed exist a link between global warming and the scarcity, namely the shrinking snowpacks. While this seems intuitive, this article is noteworthy as it […]
Read more »Water in the West: An ‘Agreement to Share Adversity’
December 15th, 2007
As reported in the Los Angeles Times, the federal government – faced with the eighth year of the worst drought in the century-long historic record of the Colorado River – recently adopted new guidelines on managing the Western United States’ most important water source to help avoid disputes between the seven basin states of Wyoming, […]
Read more »Go West (for water), young man…
December 15th, 2007
As The Economist recently noted, America’s West – gripped by drought – is rethinking how it uses water. As the article notes, seven states, as well as northern Mexico, rely on the Colorado River and are quickly coming to the realization that things have changed: “This is not a normal drought,†says Pat Mulroy of […]
Read more »A Mother’s Milk (River): Down to A Trickle but Still Causing Waves
December 7th, 2007
Along the normally placid U.S./Canadian border, American officials are causing waves by contending that the U.S. is not getting its adequate share from the Milk and St. Mary’s Rivers which flow into the Canadian province of Alberta. As the Calgary Herald noted recently, this argument is not just about competing claims between Montana and Alberta, […]
Read more »Water Politics in U.S. Southeast: Beware of the Inevitable Deluge
November 16th, 2007
Associated Press is reporting that Federal biologists signed off on a plan to reduce the flow of water from Lake Lanier, the main water source for Atlanta and the focal point of a three-state water fight as the Southeast contends with a historic drought. However, as the article notes, the issues is still under strong […]
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