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In California, Farmers Test a Method to Sink More Water into Underground Stores
November 30th, 2023
Courtesy of Inside Climate News, a look at a novel California program which reimburses landowners for replenishing groundwater, in a bid to add regularity to the state’s boom and bust water system: In recent decades, as water has grown increasingly precious, Californians have tried countless ways to find more of it and make it last […]
Read more »The Libertarian Developer Who Spent Decades Guzzling West Maui’s Water
November 30th, 2023
Via Grist, a report on Peter Martin, he libertarian developer looming over West Maui’s water conflict: Just weeks after the deadliest wildfire in modern U.S. history ripped through the coastal town of L?hain?, Native Hawaiian taro farmers, environmentalists, and other residents of West Maui crowded into a narrow conference room in Honolulu for a state […]
Read more »Lithium in Paradox: Drought Could Halt New Utah Mining Activity
November 28th, 2023
Via The Land Desk, a look at how water scarcity could stop a new Utah mining rush: Myriad proposals to tap lithium deposits in southeastern Utah are progressing from the conceptual to the exploratory phases. But they are running up against a familiar obstacle in these arid parts: concern about how the projects might affect diminishing […]
Read more »Can Farmers Save the Great Salt Lake?
November 27th, 2023
Via Reasons To Be Cheerful, a look at how farmers are doing their part by choosing to do more with less to help solve Utah’s water crisis: The Bear River flows out of Wyoming’s Uinta Mountains, winding 350 miles through sagebrush meadows and agricultural fields in Idaho and Utah before it fans out into wetlands […]
Read more »As U.S. Groundwater Dwindles, Powerful Players Block Change
November 26th, 2023
Courtesy of The New York Times, a look at some of the people fighting efforts to conserve a vital resource that’s disappearing across the United States: From a small brick building in Garden City, Kan., 13 men manage the use of groundwater across five million acres in the southwest corner of the state, some of […]
Read more »Colorado River Crisis: How Did The Nation’s Two Largest Reservoirs Nearly Go Dry?
November 23rd, 2023
Via The Colorado Sun, a look at how historic drought, poor planning, competing political agendas and climate-change denial contributed to dangerously low levels at Lake Mead and Lake Powell, experts say: During the drought-choked summer of 2021, Colorado’s largest reservoir, Blue Mesa, was low, its shoreline exposed and dusty like a dirty white collar. The […]
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