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The Colorado River: Significantly Decline Due to Climate Change
September 10th, 2023
Via Scripps News, a look at how rising temperatures have sucked more than 10 trillion gallons of water out of the Colorado River Basin between 2000 and 2021: The Colorado River is an artery that pumps millions of gallons of water to tens of millions of people in the Southwestern United States. And as much […]
Read more »Water Finance: New Path Forward For Irrigated Agriculture?
September 7th, 2023
Via Farm Progress, an article on water finance which uses innovative financial incentives to balance a farmer’s economic needs with the preservation of their water resources, using a combination of loans, grants, equity, debt and other financial instruments to make water management economically viable: As I write this, I just finished up an article for […]
Read more »Chicago Suburbs, Running Out of Water, Will Tap Lake Michigan
September 7th, 2023
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a report on a U.S. city in which groundwater is now running dry where water is abundant: A city straddling the Des Plaines River that is less than 30 miles from one of the world’s largest freshwater lakes is an unexpected setting for a water shortage. But that’s the situation […]
Read more »America Should Harvest a Trillion Gallons of Rainwater
September 7th, 2023
Via Time Magazine, an article on the potential of rainwater harvesting: Over the weekend, Burning Man attendees were forced to shelter in place when the usually-parched Black Rock Desert got roughly 3 months’ worth of rain in 24 hours. In August, Tropical Storm Hilary dropped as much rain on some inland areas of Southern California in […]
Read more »Climate Change: Driving More Farmers To Consider Irrigation
September 5th, 2023
Via AP News, a report on how climate change is forc=ing more farmers and ranchers to consider irrigation — at a steep cost: The Texas ranch where Gilda Jackson trains and sells horses has been plagued by grasshoppers this year, a problem that only gets worse when the hatch quickens in times of heat and […]
Read more »A Colorado City Has Been Battling for Decades to Use Its Own Water
September 5th, 2023
Courtesy of the New York Times, a look at how lawsuits, protests and fierce disputes over who controls water in the parched American West have held up a crucial pipeline: Jack Ethredge could see the future. It was 1985, and Mr. Ethredge, then the city manager of Thornton, Colo., understood that sooner or later, the […]
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