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California’s Most Improbable Water Project Rebrands As Crusader For Environmental Justice
January 30th, 2024
Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times, a look at Cadiz Inc., a venture that has been trying to get a water project approved despite doubts about its financing, its water rights and its influence-peddling. Under new management, it now says it’s all about serving the disadvantaged: It’s hard to think of a California company that […]
Read more »Six U.S. States Facing The Most Serious Groundwater Crises
January 30th, 2024
Via The Hill, a report on the 6 states facing the most serious groundwater crises: A heating planet and expanding commercial agriculture are putting increasing pressure on America’s vital aquifers — underground reservoirs that supply water to an estimated 145 million Americans, as well as supporting much of the nation’s food supply. New research published […]
Read more »Agriculture Built These U.S. High Plains Towns, But Now It Might Run Them Dry
January 30th, 2024
Via Stateline, an article on efforts by rural midwestern towns to keep their sole water source – the Ogalla Aquifer – intact: Brownie Wilson pulls off a remote dirt road right through a steep ditch and onto a farmer’s field. He hops out of his white Silverado pickup, mud covering nearly all of it except […]
Read more »Groundwater Levels Around the World Are Dropping Quickly, Often at Accelerating Rates
January 28th, 2024
Via Inside Climate News, highlights of a starting report showing rapid declines in groundwater are most common in aquifers under croplands in drier regions, including California: Groundwater supplies are dwindling in aquifers around the world, a groundbreaking new study found, with the rates of decline accelerating over the past four decades in nearly a third […]
Read more »‘Hot Droughts’: Becoming More Common In Arid U.S. West
January 28th, 2024
Via NPR, an article on a new study confirming that ‘hot droughts’ are becoming more common in the arid U.S. west: Take a period of limited rainfall. Add heat. And you have what scientists call a ‘hot drought’ – dry conditions made more intense by the evaporative power of hotter temperatures. A new study, published […]
Read more »Supreme Court to Resolve Decade-Old Rio Grande Water Dispute
January 26th, 2024
Via Bloomberg Law, an article on the U.S. Supreme Court agreement to resolve a decade-old Rio Grande water dispute: ‘Original jurisdiction’ case involves 1930’s Rio Grande Compact US opposes settlement between Colorado, New Mexico, Texas The US Supreme Court has agreed to resolve a water dispute involving the Rio Grande River that’s been pending at […]
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