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San Diego Selling Back Some Pricey Colorado River Water for Cheaper Met Water
November 17th, 2023
Via Voice of San Diego, an article on a deal between formerly warring parties that could generate more water supplies in the drying West: A trade deal is brewing between major southern California water agencies to help restock a major reservoir on the drought-stricken Colorado River and meet federal demands to cut back use. San […]
Read more »Georgia Scores New Legal Victory over Alabama in ‘Water Wars’ Challenge
November 17th, 2023
Via The Atlanta-Journal Constitution, an article on a recent federal judicial ruling that the federal plan to manage the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin is lawful: A federal judge handed the state of Georgia and Metro Atlanta another legal victory on Thursday when it ruled against Alabama in one of several long-running disputes over management of the […]
Read more »Survey: Many Americans Think Most Rivers in the West Will Dry Up
November 15th, 2023
Via Wyoming Public Radio, a report on a new survey indicating that many Americans think climate change will cause most rivers in the West to dry up: A new survey shows many Americans think climate change is causing harm to people right now – and they don’t expect things to get any better. Nearly two-thirds (63%) […]
Read more »20 Farming Families Use More Colorado River Water Than Some Western States
November 13th, 2023
Via Pro Publica, a look at how – despite the fact that, tens of millions of people and millions of acres of farmland rely on the Colorado River’s water – a small number of farmers get more water from the river than entire states: As the Colorado River snakes through the deserts of the Southwest […]
Read more »Feds Bet on Paying for Water Conservation to Protect the Colorado River
November 13th, 2023
Via Inside Climate News, a report that Arizona and other states have agreed to use considerably less water from the river through 2026, thanks in part to a wet winter: Arizona’s future was at a critical juncture at the beginning of 2023. Massive cuts to the state’s Colorado River water supply were being imposed. Deadlines loomed […]
Read more »Colorado Squeezing Water from Urban Landscapes
November 11th, 2023
Via Big Pivots, a look at how how Colorado is navigating a world in which headwaters state struggles to embrace limits of water supply in a warming, likely drying climate: Like weekly haircuts for men, a regularly mowed lawn of Kentucky bluegrass was long a prerequisite for civic respectability in Colorado’s towns and cities. That […]
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