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Colorado River Deadlines & Incentives
December 17th, 2025
Via JFleck at Inkstain, a summary of Colorado River deadlines and incentives: Key Takeaways The consensus-based effort to develop new rules to manage the Colorado River system hasn’t worked – it’s time for a new approach Federal leadership and the credible threat of managing reservoirs to protect the system is that new approach Missing Deadlines […]
Read more »Colorado River Water Is Too Cheap, Particularly for Agricultural Users
December 14th, 2025
Courtesy of Inside Climate News, analysis of a new report from UCLA and the Natural Resources Defense Council which found nearly a quarter of Colorado River water is basically provided for free by the federal government: Colorado River water is not priced at rates that accurately reflect its scarcity, incentivizing inefficiency and overconsumption as climate […]
Read more »Dancing With Deadpool: Equity in the Colorado River Basin
December 10th, 2025
Via Jfleck, a spotlight on an excellent new report Dancing With Deadpool, a broad effort by a broad group of contributors to the Colorado River Research Group: Access to water, a concern around the globe, is constrained in many areas of the Colorado River Basin (CRB) by water scarcity, pollution and lack of delivery and […]
Read more »Trump Threatens Mexico With Tariffs Over Water
December 9th, 2025
Via Foreign Policy, a report on how drought has dried up Mexico’s water supply, much to the chagrin of Texas farmers—and Trump: Decades of tension between the United States and Mexico over shared water resources turned into an actual water-cum-trade war overnight. In a post on Truth Social, U.S. President Donald Trump made good on earlier […]
Read more »Trump Administration’s Threats to Shrink or Eliminate National Monuments Could Endanger Drinking Water for Millions
December 9th, 2025
Via Inside Climate News, commentary on a new Center for American Progress report which found 31 national monuments are the only conservation tool protecting 21,000 miles of rivers and streams that provide water for downstream communities: The 31 national monuments designated since the Clinton administration, which could be downsized as the Trump administration pushes to […]
Read more »Another Flint? How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging A Water Crisis
December 8th, 2025
Via Rolling Stone, a report on how Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages: In the spring of 2022, Jim Doherty kept having the same conversation with folks at the only grocery store in Boardman, his eastern Oregon hometown, or at the […]
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