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Record Investment Only Scratches the Surface of Fixing Black America’s Water Crisis
June 10th, 2023
Courtesy of Capital B News, a report on how – while the country’s water woes are widespread – blanket solutions fail to address Black communities’ distinct issues: Gwendolyn Reed-Davis recalls living without running water during the holiday season last year, merely months after a water crisis left Jackson, Mississippi, residents struggling to bathe, cook, and flush their […]
Read more »Hey, Hay! What About Alfalfaphobia in the Colorado River Basin?
June 10th, 2023
Courtesy of The Land Desk, commentary on the water impact of alfalfa farming in the Colorado River Basin: In recent weeks I’ve written a piece or two about alfalfa. My thesis: As the biggest single water user in the Colorado River Basin, the crop must play an equally large role in contributing to the cuts necessary to keep the river […]
Read more »Arizona, Low on Water, Weighs Taking It From the Sea. In Mexico.
June 10th, 2023
Courtesy of The New York Times, a look at a $5 billion plan to desalinate seawater in Mexico and pipe it to Phoenix is testing the notion that desert cities can keep growing as the Earth warms: Fifty miles south of the U.S. border, at the edge of a city on the Gulf of California, […]
Read more »Arizona’s Water Troubles Show How Climate Change Is Reshaping The West
June 4th, 2023
Courtesy The Washington Post, a look at how Arizona’s water troubles show how climate change is reshaping the West: Jay Famiglietti moved to Arizona this year after a career using satellites to study how the worst drought in a millennium was sapping groundwater beneath the American West. He has documented that the decline of groundwater […]
Read more »Arizona Limits Construction Around Phoenix as Its Water Supply Dwindles
June 1st, 2023
Courtesy of The New York Times, a glimpse of the future as climate change batters the West, with Arizona limiting construction around Phoenix as its water supply dwindles: Arizona has determined that there is not enough groundwater for all of the housing construction that has already been approved in the Phoenix area, and will stop […]
Read more »California Bill Would Halt Groundwater Investment
May 31st, 2023
Via Pensions & Investments, a report on a California bill that would halt groundwater investment: A California bill that would stop the “speculation or profiteering” of investment funds, including public and private equity, venture capital, real estate, infrastructure and hedge funds, from water rights on agricultural lands has passed the state Assembly. The bill, which passed […]
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