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Why Your Swimming Pool May Be Worse for Urban Water Scarcity Than Climate Change
April 15th, 2023
Courtesy of Inside Climate News, a report on a new study that found that wealthy lifestyle habits, including watering gardens and filling pools, can contribute to water shortages in cities as much or more than climate-driven drought: An aerial view of homes in one of the many cities in Southern California where residents will be […]
Read more »California’s Groundwater Gold Rush
April 13th, 2023
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a look at how banks, pension funds and insurers have been turning California’s scarce water into enormous profits, leaving people with less to drink: As storms battered California in March, the state’s inland breadbasket erupted with almond blossoms. It happens every year. The Central Valley—the source of 40% of America’s fruit and […]
Read more »Biden Administration Proposes Evenly Cutting Water Allotments From Colorado River
April 12th, 2023
Courtesy of The New York Times, a report on how – as the Colorado river shrinks – the Biden administration is getting ready to impose, for the first time, reductions in water supplies to states: After months of fruitless negotiations between the states that depend on the shrinking Colorado River, the Biden administration on Tuesday […]
Read more »Tribe, US Officials Reach Deal To Save Colorado River Water
April 11th, 2023
Via ABC News, a report that a Native American tribe in Arizona has reached a deal with the U.S. government not to use some of its Colorado River water rights in return for $150 million and funding for a pipeline project: A Native American tribe in Arizona reached a deal Thursday with the U.S. government […]
Read more »Drought-Ravaged Colorado River Gets Relief From Snow, But Crisis Remains
April 9th, 2023
Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times, a report on how the drought-ravaged Colorado River got some relief from snow, but its long-term water crisis remains: Four months ago, the outlook for the Colorado River was so dire that federal projections showed imminent risks of reservoirs dropping to dangerously low levels. But after this winter’s major […]
Read more »How We Drained California Dry
April 7th, 2023
Via the MIT Technology Review, an article on the story of remaking California and taking the water until there was nothing left: The wind finally blew the other way last night and kicked out the smoke from the burning Sierra. Down here in the flatland of California, we used to regard the granite mountain as […]
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