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Dry Springs in Central Texas Warn of Water Shortage Ahead
August 16th, 2023
Via Inside Climate News, a look at how heat, drought and booming population growth have stressed the aquifers that supply drinking water to millions of people: Almost every other day, Charlie Flatten gets a call about another local water well gone dry. Last week, he tried to help one woman find a water truck to […]
Read more »Turf Wars: Las Vegas Needs Water, But Won’t Find It In Lawns
August 16th, 2023
Via ProPublica, a report on the potential and limitations of Las Vegas’ efforts to save water by replacing lawns: As millions of newcomers have flocked to the Las Vegas Valley over the past 50 years, every level of government in the nation’s driest state has worked to ensure that water shortages don’t stop the growth. […]
Read more »Thirsty For Its Next Big Investment Opportunity, Wall Street Looks At The West’s Vanishing Water
August 15th, 2023
Via CNN, a report on growing investment interest in the U.S. West’s vanishing water: Situated in the Sonoran Desert near the Arizona-California border is the tiny rural town of Cibola – home to roughly 300 people, depending on the season. Life here depends almost entirely on the Colorado River, which nourishes thirsty crops like cotton and alfalfa, […]
Read more »How Much Water Is Left In The Colorado River?
August 15th, 2023
Via CNN, a look at efforts to determine how much water is left in the Colorado River: Fresh off a phenomenal winter snowpack, water levels on the Colorado River are going up for the first time in years. As a result, federal officials will announce this week that they are easing water restrictions in the Southwest […]
Read more »Is Agriculture Sucking New Mexico Dry?
August 12th, 2023
Via Food & Water Watch, a report on New Mexico’s agriculture-driven water challenges: New Mexico’s present state and future water projections are harrowing. A 2018 report found that all planning regions in New Mexico will have less than 75 percent of the necessary supply to meet 2060 water demands.10 Crop production has already fallen because […]
Read more »Water Conservation at Forefront of Nevada’s Economic Future
August 12th, 2023
Courtesy of the Las Vegas Review Journal, an article on how Nevada is attempting to serve as an example to the Western US by putting water conservation at forefront of the state’s economic future: The driest state in the nation is putting water consumption and conservation at the forefront of its economic development plans. The […]
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