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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 […]
Read more »Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Out of Water.
November 7th, 2023
Via Mexico Today, commnetary on groundwater overuse in Mexico and the U.S.: As climatic changes continue to grip the American Southwest and precipitation declines, communities across the U.S.-Mexico border are not looking to the skies. Rather, they are turning their eyes to the ground below them, specifically to the numerous aquifers that cross the frontier. Unfortunately, […]
Read more »A Tangle of Rules to Protect America’s Water Is Falling Short
November 3rd, 2023
Courtesy of the New York Times, a report on how all 50 states how manage groundwater, a tangle of rules that show why the country’s aquifers are in trouble: AMERICA’S STEWARDSHIP of one of its most precious resources, groundwater, relies on a patchwork of state and local rules so lax and outdated that in many […]
Read more »Multi-Million Dollar Investment To Help Ease Pressure on Ogallala Aquifer
November 3rd, 2023
Via Fox34, a report on a multi-million dollar investment to help ease pressure on the Ogallala aquifer: A vital resource is set to flow into eastern New Mexico. The federal government is investing millions of dollars to make sure there is clean drinking water for the foreseeable future. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland made […]
Read more »Colorado River Crisis Averted?
November 3rd, 2023
Via The Land Desk, commentary on the US federal government’s federal proposal to cut Lower Basin water use which is a start, but dry winters in the next three years could send the river back to the brink of a crisis: Maybe by now you’ve heard that the collective users of the Colorado River have […]
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