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A Border-Wide Approach To Transboundary Aquifer Management Between Mexico and the United States
October 15th, 2024
Via Science Direct, a new journal article on transboundary aquifer areas between Mexico and the U.S.: Highlights • New Mexico and Chihuahua have the most vulnerable groundwater hotspots. • ETAAs help in the prioritization of areas to promote transboundary collaboration. • ETAAs support the assessment of potential transboundary impacts on a local scale. Abstract Study […]
Read more »Why Don’t We Just Fix The Colorado River Crisis By Piping In Water From The East?
October 10th, 2024
Via KUNM, commentary on the idea of fixing the Colorado River crisis by piping in water from the East: The Colorado River is a lifeline for about 40 million people across the Southwest. It supplies major cities like Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Denver and a multibillion-dollar agriculture industry that puts food on tables across the […]
Read more »Arizona Tribes’ Long Fight for Share of Colorado River Water Nears Resolution in Congress
October 3rd, 2024
Via Prescott News, an article on the Arizona tribes’ long fight for share of Colorado River water: Seven states that rely on the Colorado River each got a cut of its water under a deal struck over a century ago – a deal that excluded the Hopi, the Navajo and other tribal nations. After years […]
Read more »Glen Canyon Dam: Facing Dead Pool
October 2nd, 2024
Via The Land Desk, a look at the crisis facing Glen Canyon Dam: In 1998, when I was in fourth grade, I joined a class field trip to Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. But when we got to Cortez, the road was barricaded. Hours earlier, three men had stolen a water-tanker truck and killed […]
Read more »Joliet, Illinois, Plans to Source Its Future Drinking Water From Lake Michigan. Will Other Cities Follow?
September 30th, 2024
Via Inside Climate News, a report that – as aquifers dry up – some Midwest communities are looking to the region’s greatest natural resources for a solution. A 2008 law governs access to it—with an exemption for Illinois. The aquifer from which Joliet, Illinois, sources its drinking water is likely going to run too dry […]
Read more »Millions Depend On The Mississippi—But The Mighty River Is Running Dry
September 27th, 2024
Tons of grains and crops are shipped down the Mississippi River every year. This National Geographic article examines what will happen if increasingly persistent droughts shrink America’s longest river? About eighty miles south of St. Louis, Brian Ragsdale’s boat, the Dredge Potter, has been deployed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to carve a […]
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