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Lithium Critical to the Energy Transition Is Coming at the Expense of Water
August 13th, 2024
Courtesy of Inside Climate News, an article on a new study that finds that the mining and processing of the metal critical to EV batteries and renewable energy storage projects depletes and contaminates surface water, often in already vulnerable communities: Lithium needed for batteries that power electric vehicles and store electricity from renewable energy projects […]
Read more »Tribe Sues Interior Department Over Approval of Arizona Lithium Project
August 13th, 2024
Via Inside Climate News, a report on a lawsuit filed by the Hualapai Nation which claims a lithium exploration project near its reservation and the town of Wikieup could threaten a spring sacred to the tribe: The Hualapai Nation sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management Friday over its approval of a lithium exploration project […]
Read more »Some of Arizona’s Most Valuable Water Could Soon Hit the Market
August 13th, 2024
Via Circle of Blue, a look at how a small tribal community along the Colorado River could become a major player in the state’s water supply: South of Headgate Rock Dam, beyond riverbanks lined with willow and mesquite, the broad floodplain of the Colorado River spreads across emerald fields and sun-bleached earth. The Colorado River […]
Read more »Arizona Residents Fear What the State’s Mining Boom Will Do to Their Water
August 10th, 2024
Via Inside Climate News, an article on many Arizonans’ fears that the state’s mining boom will threaten limited water supplies, as nearly 80 percent of Arizona lacks any form of groundwater regulation, allowing big users like the copper mines supplying the energy transition to consume vast amounts of the scarce resource: Overlooking a ridge in […]
Read more »Will We Have to Pump the Great Lakes to California to Feed the Nation?
August 5th, 2024
Via New York Times, a look at the water/food nexus in the U.S. and the coming impact of climate change: Driving north through California’s Tejon Pass on Interstate 5, you spill down out of the mountains onto a breathtaking expanse of farm fields like few others in the world. Rows of almond, pistachio and citrus […]
Read more »California’s Water Supplies Could Be Drying Up
August 2nd, 2024
Via Newsweek, a report on California’s growing water crisis: California faces a growing water crisis as climate change risks reducing supplies from the State Water Project by as much as 23 percent in 20 years, according to projections. A new report, published on Wednesday by California’s Department of Water Resources (DWR), states that a 23 […]
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