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Phoenix Subdivision Builds Move Ahead, Despite Water Concerns
October 24th, 2025
Via High Country News, an article on the first crack in the Phoenix area’s suspension on new housing that relies on groundwater: Houses under construction in the Tartesso neighborhood in Buckeye, Arizona, in September. The formerly small agricultural city’s population has rapidly grown to 125,000 and is home to many large subdivisions.Caitlin O’Hara / High […]
Read more »The Unknown Groundwater Los Angeles Pumps In The Owens Valley, and the Tribes Who Want It Back
October 18th, 2025
Via the Los Angeles Times, a look at the little-known groundwater Los Angeles pumps in the Owens Valley, and the tribes who want it back In the Owens Valley, Los Angeles not only siphons water from streams, but also pumps groundwater from wells. Leaders of Native tribes are calling for the city to take less […]
Read more »The Dried-Out Subdivisions of Phoenix
October 8th, 2025
Via High Country News, a look at how a groundwater crisis halted the construction of thousands of homes and pitted affordability against environmental concerns: On the far edge of suburban Phoenix, a giant concrete arch spans the Central Arizona Project, dubbed a “Bridge to Nowhere” by developers and neighborhood activists alike. Nobody can use it; […]
Read more »The Impossibly Expensive Plan to Save Texas’s Water Supply
September 20th, 2025
Courtesy of Texas Monthly, an article on one potential solution to Texas’s water scarcity crisis: The year is 1969, and revolution is in the air. Protests clog American campuses and streets. Richard Nixon enters the White House on behalf of his “silent majority.” NASA puts men on the moon. And the hippie counterculture threatens to […]
Read more »Inside the Fight for Texas’s Most Precious Resource
September 20th, 2025
Via Texas Monthly, a look at how – in Texas – elected leaders, rich investors, and small-town residents are stumbling over the same question: Who owns the state’s water? I’m riding shotgun in his battle-tested Chevy Suburban, an actual shotgun rubbing against my left leg, when Bob Sanders tells me that it was water that […]
Read more »Experts: Slash Colorado River Consumption ASAP To Avoid Crisis
September 16th, 2025
The deadline is rapidly approaching for the Colorado River Basin states to come up with a plan for divvying up the river’s waters and operating its reservoirs and other plumbing infrastructure after 2026. But a recent report warns that even if the states do make the November deadline — and it’s looking more and more […]
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