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Getting Colorado River Water from California Farms Will take More Than Just Money
August 10th, 2023
Via Tuscon’s KGUN9 News, a report on tensions between Arizona and California over dwindling Colorado River water: Under the broiling hot sun of California’s Imperial Valley, a canal cuts the land in two. On one side, gravelly beige sand is dotted with scrub and shimmering waves of heat blur the mountains in the distance. On […]
Read more »Rio Grande: Slipping Into A Sandbed
August 7th, 2023
Via SourceNM, a report on a disappearing Rio Grande due to the U.S. southwest’s ongoing drought: The respite from intense, deadly heat waves won’t last long. And it looks like the monsoon will suffer for it, according to New Mexico forecasters. Globally, July has been the hottest month in recorded history, a preliminary analysis from international […]
Read more »No Water, No Workers, No Chips
August 4th, 2023
Via Foreign Policy, a look at how TSMC and other tech giants need to take climate and water scarcity into account or risk seeing their investments go up in smoke: All roads lead to Phoenix. On the gravy train of greenfield investment riding on the back of Inflation Reduction Act legislative incentives in the United […]
Read more »Minnesota Tribe Sets Enforceable Rules To Safeguard Wild Rice and Water Supply
August 4th, 2023
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a look at how one Minnesota Tribe has set aside ineffective voluntary pollution prevention practices for mandatory regulation: It’s been centuries since the White Earth Band migrated west across North America, following an ancestral prophecy to go where “food grows on water.” One of seven Ojibwe bands in Minnesota, White […]
Read more »Will The U.S. Run Out of Water?
August 3rd, 2023
Via LiveScience, commentary on U.S. water security : Within the next 50 years, many of the freshwater basins in the United States could struggle to meet the population’s water demands. Climate change is causing severe droughts and greater aridity — extreme dryness that can affect humans and the natural systems they depend on, especially in western states. Greater aridity […]
Read more »Colorado River, Stolen By Law
July 30th, 2023
Courtesy of Hight Country News, a look at how indigenous nations have been an afterthought in U.S. water policy for over a century, and that was all part of the plan: The turbulent, choppy waters of the Colorado River pull from tributaries as far north as Wyoming before they race south for hundreds of miles, crashing […]
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