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The Private Equity Firm Tapping America’s Spring Water
December 19th, 2023
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a report on BlueTriton Brands – a private equity firm that owns Poland Spring, Arrowhead and other bottled water brands. As it tries to grow, experts worry sensitive springs, creeks and groundwater supplies from Florida to California are paying the price: Ginnie Springs is a true Florida oasis. Ringed by towering cypress trees, […]
Read more »Who Gets the Water in California? Whoever Gets There First.
December 16th, 2023
Courtesy of The New York Times, a report on California which – as the world warms – is re-examining claims to its water that have gone unchallenged for generations: The story of California’s water wars begins, as so many stories do in the Golden State, with gold. The prospectors who raced westward after 1848 scoured […]
Read more »Addressing Groundwater Overdraft in the Sacramento Valley
December 15th, 2023
Via the Public Policy Institute of California, a report on ways to address groundwater overdraft in the Sacramento Valley: Although the Sacramento Valley has relatively abundant surface water supplies, groundwater is also an important resource for many of its communities and farms. In fact, one-third of the valley’s farmland depends entirely on groundwater, and more than half (60%) […]
Read more »The Race to Save the Great Salt Lake
December 15th, 2023
Via Mother Jones, a look at the race to save the Great Salt Lake: In October 2021, an increasingly dire megadrought had left Utah’s most famous lake at its lowest level in recorded history. As Great Salt Lake lay dying, Democrats introduced a modest water conservation bill requiring efficient plumbing fixtures in all new construction, […]
Read more »Opportunities for Restoring Environmental Flows in the Rio Grande–Rio Bravo Basin Spanning the US–Mexico Border
December 13th, 2023
Courtesy of ASCE, a new study published in the Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management examining opportunities for restoring environmental flows in the Rio Grande–Rio Bravo Basin spanning the US–Mexico border: Abstract The Rio Grande–Rio Bravo’s flow regime has been highly altered for more than 130 years, yet the river ecosystem still supports important biodiversity […]
Read more »Los Angeles Plans to Improve Stormwater Capture, Source 80% of Water Locally by 2045
December 13th, 2023
Via EcoWatch, a report on how Los Angeles plans to improve stormwater capture, and source 80% of water locally by 2045: Los Angeles County’s Board of Supervisors has voted for a plan to improve stormwater capture, with a goal of capturing more stormwater for local reuse rather than importing water from other regions. The L.A. […]
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