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Stable On The Colorado River: When “Good” Is Not Good Enough

Via JFleck at Inkstain, a report on the Colorado River: Stable isn’t good enough. Preliminary year-end Colorado River numbers are stark. Total basin-wide storage for the last two years has stabilized, oscillating between 30 and 27 maf (million acre-feet), where storage sits at the start of 2025[1]. That is lower than any sustained period since […]

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What’s Next After Failed effort To Secure Colorado River Basin Water Rights for Arizona Tribes?

Via the Colorado Sun, an article on how officials worked until the last second to try to pass a landmark water rights deal involving three tribes, the state of Arizona and dozens of other users in the Colorado River Basin. Now they are setting their sights on trying again with a new Congress. Advocates of […]

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What Do The Los Angeles Fires Tell Us About The Coming Water Wars?

Via The Guardian, commentary on whether water will soon be a marketable commodity or a priceless public good There’s a scene in the film Mad Max: Fury Road where the evil ruler Immortan Joe, gazing down from a cliff upon his parched, emaciated subjects, pushes two levers and water gushes from three gigantic sluices. The wretched masses […]

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Mississippi Delta Could Vanish Soon, Scientists Warn

Via Newsweek, an alarming report on the rapid deterioration of the Mississippi Delta because of rising sea levels: The Mississippi River’s Bird’s Foot Delta, a vital ecological and economic region, faces rapid deterioration because of rising sea levels, sediment shortages and invasive species. Louisiana State University (LSU) and Tulane researchers, backed by a $22 million federal […]

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To Save the Great Salt Lake, Farmers Will Have to Grow Less Alfalfa

Via Inside Climate News, an article on new research which found that alfalfa uses the vast majority of agricultural water that would otherwise replenish the largest saline lake in the nation: The Great Salt Lake is shrinking, and new research published Tuesday reports that saving it requires reducing the amount of farmland that is irrigated […]

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Saving the Great Salt Lake by Rebalancing Its Water Budget

Via Sustainable Waters, commentary on a new approach to save Great Salt Lake: In recent years I’ve had the great fortune to be able to work with some amazing teams of researchers to explore the causes of water scarcity across many geographies, including the Colorado River, the Rio Grande, the Western US, and around the globe. Importantly, we’ve gone […]

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