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Texas Eyes Marine Desalination, Oilfield Water Reuse to Sustain Rapid Growth
April 16th, 2023
Via Inside Climate News, a report on concerns about a bill moving through the Texas Legislature that would create a new fund for desalination, beneficial reuse of produced water and inter-state water purchases. Texas legislators are poised to recommend designating billions of dollars in public funds for controversial water purification technologies, including marine desalination and […]
Read more »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 […]
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