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Looming Water Supply Crises: Future Water Availability – Winners and Losers
February 5th, 2008
As reported by Terra Daily, a prominent group of hydrologists and climatologists writing in Science magazine argue that climate change has already dramatically altered the water cycle and these changes signal a looming water supply crisis. As the article notes, a picture of future water availability gainers and losers can be projected: “…Our best current […]
Read more »A 21st Century “Chinatown” – Reid Holds a Royal Flush for Las Vegas Water Supplies
January 24th, 2008
A fascinating article in the February issue of Portfolio magazine, detailing Harry Reid’s — the Democrats’ United States Senate leader — support of developers and pit miners in his home state of Nevada, where runaway growth portends a ruinous water crisis and a threatened desert ecosystem. In a story that conjures up memories of Los […]
Read more »The Drying of the American West – A Wellspring of Future Water Wars
January 22nd, 2008
As we have discussed previously, the U.S. West is facing a myriad of water resource issues. In an excellent article, National Geographic recently analyzed the “drying of the American West”, focusing particularly on the decreasing flow of the Colorado River and the fact that the 20th century — the century when Americans built an incredible […]
Read more »More Water Politics in California
January 21st, 2008
As recently reported in The Los Angeles Times, cities and water agencies across California are scrambling to assess the ramifications of a first-ever shortage allocation plan that would govern water deliveries to communities stretching from the Santa Monica Mountains to the Inland Empire and south to the Mexican border. As with most water-related issues, deep […]
Read more »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 […]
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