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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 […]
Read more »Overconsumption Gravely Threatens Water Security in the Binational Rio Grande-Bravo Basin
December 8th, 2025
Via Springer Nature, a new study reporting that overconsumption gravely threatens water security in the binational Rio Grande-Bravo basin: The Rio Grande-Bravo basin shared by the United States and Mexico is experiencing a severe water crisis demanding urgent attention. In recent decades, water storage reservoirs, aquifers, and annual streamflow volumes have been substantially depleted, leaving […]
Read more »Study: Something’s Gotta Give on the Rio Grande
November 21st, 2025
Via The Land Desk, a look at how climate change and overconsumption are drying up the Southwest’s “other” big river: The Colorado River and its woes tend to get all of the attention, but the Southwest’s “other” big river, the Rio Grande, is in even worse shape thanks to a combination of warming temperatures, drought, […]
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