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Colorado River Water Use in Three States Drops to 40-Year Low
July 2nd, 2024
Via Circle of Blue, a report on Colorado River water use and a report that Arizona, California, and Nevada took less water from the struggling river: As the Colorado River declines, one fundamental question hangs over the Southwest’s most important waterway: can its people and industries slash their water use, thus aligning their water demands […]
Read more »Every Drop Counts In America’s River Crisis
July 2nd, 2024
Via National Geographic, a look at the Rio Grande and Colorado Rivers, two of the most threatened rivers in the U.S.: Our nation’s most vital waterways are drying up at an alarming rate due to global warming, increased human water use, and other man-made impacts. Nowhere is this crisis seen as dramatically than in the […]
Read more »Hoping For A Miracle To Save The Ogallala Aquifer? Prepare The New Dust Bowl.
July 2nd, 2024
Via the Kansas Reflector, an article on the urgent challenges facing the Ogallala Aquifer: In the summer of 1894, a curious railway car plied the tracks of western Kansas, a chemical soup wafting to a sky ruled by a demon sun and chastened by moisture-devouring winds. At the helm of this experiment on wheels, owned […]
Read more »Water-Rich Gila River Tribe Near Phoenix Flexes Its Political Muscles In A Drying West
June 27th, 2024
Via AP News, a look at the role that the water-rich Gila River tribe near Phoenix can play in a drying West: Stephen Roe Lewis grew up seeing stacks of legal briefs at the dinner table — often, about his tribe’s water. His father, the late Rodney Lewis, was general counsel for the Gila River […]
Read more »Conflict Flowing Down River: The Water War Between U.S. and Mexico
June 27th, 2024
Via The Week, an article on rising water tensions between the U.S. and Mexico: The U.S. and Mexico are experiencing another border dispute, and this one is about water. The conflict stems from an 80-year-old treaty where the countries agreed to share water from the Colorado River and the Rio Grande. However, because water is […]
Read more »Looking Beneath The Surface: Does Arizona Have Enough Water?
June 26th, 2024
Via NPR, an article on Arizona’s water picture: Brett Fleck does not have an easy job. He manages water for a city in the desert. He has to keep taps flowing while facing a complicated equation: The city is growing — attracting big business and thousands of new residents every year — but its main […]
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