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New Water Accounting Reveals Why Colorado River No Longer Reaches The Sea
March 29th, 2024
Via Nature, a new study that demonstrates how new water accounting reveals why the Colorado River no longer reaches the sea: Abstract Persistent overuse of water supplies from the Colorado River during recent decades has substantially depleted large storage reservoirs and triggered mandatory cutbacks in water use. The river holds critical importance to more than […]
Read more »Hay Grown For Cattle Consumes Nearly Half The Water Drawn From Colorado River
March 29th, 2024
Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times, an article on a new study showing that hay grown for cattle consumes nearly half the water drawn from Colorado River: With chronic water shortages afflicting the Colorado River, discussions about how to cut usage have increasingly focused on a thirsty crop that consumes an especially large share of […]
Read more »Colorado River: Solving Water Crises Begins With Good Data
March 29th, 2024
Via Sustainable Waters, an insightful look at – with negotiations over future allocations of water from the Colorado River (southwestern US) contentious and intensifying – anew study providing comprehensive accounting for all uses of the river’s water can aid design of strategies for bringing use back into balance with available supplies: The Colorado River in […]
Read more »Las Vegas Is Going All In on Its Water Conservation Plan
March 26th, 2024
Via Smithsonian Magazine, an article on how Las Vegas – as the Southwest dries – a city notorious for excess find a way to survive with less: Anything goes in Las Vegas, except excessive water use. Two decades ago, the city began to grapple with a reality that many other cities in the Southwest were trying to […]
Read more »An Invisible Water Surcharge: Climate Warming Increases Crop Water Demand
March 21st, 2024
Via Phys.org, an article on a new study enumerating how climate warming increases crop water demand in the San Joaquin Valley: California’s San Joaquin Valley is home to some of the most fertile soil on Earth. Crops grown here are exported around the world. According to California Department of Food and Agriculture, more than 250 […]
Read more »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 […]
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