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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 […]
Read more »Decades After the Colorado River Flooded the Chemehuevi’s Land, They Still Don’t Have Their Share
July 30th, 2023
Via High Country News, a report on how – nearly all of the Chemehuevi Tribe’s water – remains in the Colorado River and ends up being used by southern California cities: At night, the lights of Lake Havasu City’s hotels, boat launches and neighborhoods reflect off the reservoir that gave this busy Arizona tourist town […]
Read more »‘Fight for Our Lives’: Arizona’s Water Regime Limits Hopi Tribe’s Future
July 30th, 2023
Via High Country News, a report on a 45-year legal saga that is leaving the Hopi Tribe fighting for their economic ambitions through water access: In September 2020, the Hopi Tribe’s four-decade effort to secure its right to water culminated in a court proceeding. The outcome would determine how much water the arid reservation would receive […]
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