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Understanding the Real Fight Over Water in Arizona
July 17th, 2023
Via Bloomberg, an interview discussing at Arizona’s water: Arizona recently announced new constraints on housing development in the areas around Phoenix. At issue is water rights and scarcity, which have been a challenge for the US Southwest for as long as people have been living there. That being said, the region is currently in the […]
Read more »How a Saudi firm Tapped a Gusher of Water in Drought-Stricken Arizona
July 17th, 2023
Courtesy of The Washington Post, an article on how lax rules allowed a foreign-owned company to pump water from state land to grow alfalfa for the kingdom’s cattle: A megadrought has seared Arizona, stressing its rivers and reservoirs and reducing water to a trickle in the homes of farmworkers near this desert valley. But green […]
Read more »The Forgotten Sovereigns of the Colorado River
July 16th, 2023
Via Politico, a look at how – as the West’s major river dries up – tribes have asserted rights to its water long ignored by state and federal authorities: If it weren’t for the Colorado River, Albuquerque wouldn’t exist — at least, not as a city of half a million. Which is interesting, because the city […]
Read more »California Democrats Chip Away At Historic Water Rights
July 12th, 2023
Via The Center Square, a report that California Democrats are moving forward a bill to chip away historic water rights: The California Assembly Committee on Water, Parks, and Wildlife today passed a bill out of committee that would empower the State Water Board to chip away at historic water rights and significantly reduce rural water allocations. […]
Read more »Tracing Mining’s Threat to U.S. Waters
July 12th, 2023
Courtesy of The New York Times, a look at mining’s threat to U.S. waters: In the mountain streams of southern British Columbia and northern Montana, a rugged part of the world, fish with misshapen skulls and twisted spines have been caught over the years. Many scientists attribute the malformed creatures and declines in certain fish […]
Read more »Scientists Warned of a Salton Sea Disaster. No One Listened.
July 9th, 2023
Via Undark, a detailed look at the Salton Sea, a little-known health and environmental tragedy: ON THE AFTERNOON OF Oct. 6, 2022, a massive dust storm rose in the drought-parched Sonoran Desert just southeast of California’s Salton Sea. Wind, gusting at more than 60 miles per hour, whipped the desert floor into a vaulting curtain of […]
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