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Can U.S and Mexico Secure Water Supplies in Shrinking Rio Grande?
March 20th, 2024
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a look at the need to change the 80-year-old water treaty between the U.S. and Mexico to accommodate the drying climate: Reservoirs sink to record lows. Farmers lament shortage of water for irrigation. Senior officials, buffeted by partisan disruption, haggle over the terms of new management plans. These scenes define […]
Read more »Risks Ease For Colorado River Reservoirs After Wet Winter, but Long-Term Challenges Loom
March 19th, 2024
Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times, an article on the impact that a wet winter has had upon the Colorado River: After a wet year and a push to conserve water in the Southwest, federal officials say the risk of the Colorado River’s reservoirs declining to critically low levels has substantially eased for the next […]
Read more »As Colorado River Shrinks, States Continue To Argue Over Cuts
March 9th, 2024
Via The Land Desk, a look at how states continue to tussle over a shrinking Colorado River: The two groups of Colorado River watershed states — the Upper Basin and the Lower Basin — have each come up with a respective preliminary plan for how to deal with a shrinking supply of water in the […]
Read more »AI Is Taking Water From The Desert
March 8th, 2024
Courtesy of The Atlantic, commentary on the environmental impact of new data centers and whether the Earth can sustain them? One scorching day this past September, I made the dangerous decision to try to circumnavigate some data centers. The ones I chose sit between a regional airport and some farm fields in Goodyear, Arizona, half an […]
Read more »Can the Ocean Save the Colorado River? San Diego Thinks So.
March 7th, 2024
Via Voice of San Diego, an article on how the San Diego Water Authority is both selling off its expensive desal water and trying to make more of it: Facing rising costs and rates, the leaders of San Diego’s water lifelines are looking to sell some of its most expensive supply: de-salted ocean water from […]
Read more »Talks To Save The Colorado River Just Hit A Logjam
March 6th, 2024
Courtesy of The Washington Post, a report on how talks to save the Colorado River just hit a logjam: There has been a breakdown on the way toward a long-term plan to save the shrinking Colorado River. Negotiations over plans to conserve its waters starting in 2027 have bifurcated: Arizona and California, two of the biggest […]
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