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Could Ocean Desalination Help Solve Las Vegas’ Water Woes?
May 23rd, 2026
Via the Las Vegas Review Journal, a report that Las Vegas is exploring a water transfer deal with San Diego: Southern Nevada is now looking to the Pacific Ocean to ease its water woes. In a vote Thursday, the Southern Nevada Water Authority board approved a memorandum of understanding that allows General Manager John Entsminger […]
Read more »AI Data Centers in Parched American West Need 7B Gallons of Water Annually
May 20th, 2026
Via Quartz, a look at how new data center facilities across Arizona, Nevada, and Utah are demanding millions of gallons daily in a region where snowpack hit record lows and reservoirs are also low: Water use from data center cooling in the Phoenix area alone is on track to increase by 870%, from 385 million […]
Read more »As the West Dries Out, a New Generation of Dams Rise
May 16th, 2026
Via Bloomberg, a look at how the cities of Colorado’s Front Range are counting on new dams to support their booming population in a deepening megadrought: The Chimney Hollow Dam looks ancient in its simplicity, like a Neolithic mound. The largest dam built in the US in a quarter century, it is not a monumental […]
Read more »Why the Colorado River is Once Again Facing a Water Crisis
May 10th, 2026
Via Washington Post, a report on a stopgap proposal from Arizona, California and Nevada which is unlikely to break the stalemate in negotiations over the future of the river: The situation on the Colorado River has rarely been more dire than in this moment. The snowpacks that feed the river are the smallest on record. […]
Read more »Corpus Christi’s Drought Emergency: “There Is No Manual”
May 8th, 2026
Via Invisible Waters, a look at Corpus Christi’s drought crisis: “We have no precedent to follow. There’s no manual, there’s no video,” Corpus Christi City Manager Peter Zanoni told the City Council…” October 8, 2021 – October 11, 2025 (NASA Earth Observatory) Over the past few weeks, I’ve been watching the news out of Corpus […]
Read more »Why Trump Wants To Spend $1B on Great Salt Lake
April 27th, 2026
Via NPR, a report on why Trump wants to spend $1 billion on Great Salt Lake: At its peak, Great Salt Lake, located right outside the state’s capital of Salt Lake City, was bigger than the state of Delaware, covering roughly 2,300 square miles, with a thriving ecosystem and the main reason Utah claimed to […]
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