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The Worst-Case Scenario For Drought On The Colorado River
April 20th, 2023
Via Vox, a look at the worst-case scenario for drought on the Colorado River, a waterbody that one in eight Americans depend on: The Colorado River provides water for irrigation, power generation, recreation, and habitats for endangered species. But the 40 million people who drink from this critical artery have watched it wither amid the region’s worst […]
Read more »The Colorado River Is Going Dry…To Feed Cows
April 19th, 2023
Via Vox, a look at the real cause the Colorado River is drying up: Last May, 30 miles east of the Las Vegas Strip, a barrel containing a dead body washed up on the shores of Lake Mead, the country’s largest water reservoir. In the following months, more human remains surfaced, along with a World […]
Read more »Colorado River: Most Endangered U.S. Waterway
April 18th, 2023
Via The Guardian, an article on a new American Rivers reports that designates the Colorado River the most endangered U.S. waterway: A 277-mile stretch of the Colorado River that snakes through the iconic Grand Canyon is America’s most endangered waterway, a new report has found. The unique ecosystem and cultural heritage of the Grand Canyon is […]
Read more »California’s Double Whammy: Drought and Floods
April 18th, 2023
Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times, an editorial on the challenges faced by a society experiencing drought and floods at the same time, the Golden State’s reality for the near future: Just as federal officials were laying out alternative scenarios last week for steep water supply cuts from the Colorado River due to the drying […]
Read more »Initial Response To The Colorado River Crisis Will Be Local
April 18th, 2023
Courtesy of STRATFOR Worldview, analysis that the initial response to the Colorado River crisis will be at the local level as federal initiatives will likely be delayed until after the national election in 2024: Political obstacles and increased winter precipitation will slow U.S. federal and state officials’ response to the decline of the Colorado River […]
Read more »Before Western States Suck the Colorado River Dry, We Have One Last Chance to Act
April 16th, 2023
Courtesy of The New York Times, commentary from Bruce Babbitt, the secretary of the Interior Department in the Clinton administration and former governor of Arizona: The Interior Department last summer dropped a bomb on the seven states that depend upon the Colorado River for water. It declared an emergency over the two-decade drought that was […]
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