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Water Wars: When the Taps Run Dry
November 1st, 2023
Via the Breakthrough Institute, an article on the desert plains beyond the Rocky Mountains, where mega-drought is no longer a theory: Shore dwellers in New Jersey, the Carolinas, and Florida barred from commercial flood insurance; homeowners in the forests of the Rockies and Sierra Nevada denied fire insurance by firms whose loss calculations now see […]
Read more »Megafires Endanger Water Supplies In American West
November 1st, 2023
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a look at how the era of megafires endangers water supplies in American West: The largest fire in New Mexico history began with a disastrous government agency blunder. Its consequences for land and a small northern New Mexico city’s water were magnified by man-made climate change. In the first week […]
Read more »Water Wars: The Other Circular Economy
October 30th, 2023
Courtesy of The Breakthrough Institute, a look at the future of farming as Western water grows more scarce and more precious: We humans have a built-in capacity to take things for granted. Perhaps it is a survival instinct, a constant drive to find a placid state of “normal.” It’s an understandable goal, but it is […]
Read more »New Southern California Water Bank Improves Water Supply Reliability for Millions
October 26th, 2023
Via Business Wire, a report on the new $211 million High Desert Water Bank, Metropolitan’s largest-ever investment in groundwater storage: After three years of construction, the first stage of a critical new groundwater storage project is complete and water is flowing into storage, significantly increasing Southern California’s water supply reliability in the face of a […]
Read more »Biden’s $8B Quest To Solve America’s Groundwater Crisis
October 26th, 2023
Via Fast Company, an article on the administration use of infrastructure funding to revive dormant plans for pipelines and reservoirs in rural areas across the West: Water is hard to come by on the Rocky Boy’s Reservation, and it has been for a long time. The Chippewa Cree tribe members who live on this reservation in […]
Read more »California’s Epic Rain Year Boosted Groundwater Levels, But Not Enough To Recoup Losses
October 25th, 2023
Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times, a report that California’s epic rain year boosted groundwater levels, but not enough to recoup losses: California’s extraordinarily wet year brought the state vast quantities of water that have soaked into the ground and given a substantial boost to the state’s groundwater supplies, but not nearly enough to reverse […]
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