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The Gen Z Water Dealmaker
May 18th, 2024
Via LAist, a podcast on people with the most power on the Colorado River. [music in] Hey, this is Antonia Cereijido.[CM1] You’re listening to Imperfect Paradise from LAist Studios, the show about hidden worlds and messy realities. My colleague, a correspondent on the show, Emily Guerin , used to be a beat reporter covering the […]
Read more »Colorado River Tribes Can Lease Their Water To Dry States, but Why Is It So Hard?
May 18th, 2024
Via Grist, a look at how the Colorado River Indian Tribes can now lease water to non-Indigenous users along the drought-stricken river, but most nations can’t do the same: The Colorado River Indian Tribes now have the ability to lease their water rights off-reservation, a move that could ease pressures on communities facing the effects […]
Read more »California’s Nuumu People Claim LA Stole Their Water, Now They’re Fighting for Its Return
May 18th, 2024
Via KQED, a report on California’s Nuumu People’s struggle to reclaim their water: When Noah Williams was about a year old, his parents took him on a fateful drive through the endless desert sagebrush of the Owens Valley — which the Nüümü call Payahuunadü — in California’s Eastern Sierra. Noah was strapped into his car […]
Read more »A Water War Is Starting To Boil Between U.S. and Mexico
May 18th, 2024
Via The Washington Post, a report on water tensions between the U.S. and Mexico in south Texas, where a water shortage killed the sugar industry and could slow growth in booming border towns: A water dispute between the United States and Mexico that goes back decades is turning increasingly urgent in Texas communities that rely […]
Read more »Nevada May Expand Cash-for-Water Rights Programs for Imperiled Regions
May 17th, 2024
Via Las Vegas Review Journal, a report on Nevada’s plans to expand cash-for-water rights programs for imperiled regions: The Las Vegas Valley gets almost all its water from the Colorado River. But in the rest of the state, thousands of homes rely on groundwater wells, relying on a resource they have a right to use […]
Read more »How Colorado Towns Are Trying To Get Some Water Certainty
May 7th, 2024
Via NPR, a podcast on how Colorado towns are trying to get some water certainty: In Western Colorado, towns and farms are banding together to pay a hundred million dollars for water they don’t intend to use. Today on the show, how scarcity, climate change and a first-dibs system of water management is forcing towns, […]
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