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Warning About Aquifer’s Decline Sets Up Big Fight In Kansas
January 19th, 2023
Via WIBW, a report on the Ogalla Aquifer and looming battles over its use: Kansas water experts are sounding an alarm decades in the making: Farmers and ranchers in the state’s western half must stop pumping more water out of a vast aquifer than nature puts back each year or risk the economic collapse of […]
Read more »U.S. West Water Managers: ‘This Is Going To Be Painful’
January 19th, 2023
Via Arizona Mirror, a report on the western U.S.’s water crisis: Water authorities in the Western U.S. don’t have a crystal ball, but rapidly receding reservoirs uncovering sunken boats and other debris lost in their depths decades ago give a clear view of the hard choices ahead. If western states do not agree on a […]
Read more »Researchers Solve One of U.S. / Mexico’s Biggest Water Puzzles
January 18th, 2023
Via High Country News, a report on the number of groundwater aquifers the United States and Mexico officially share along their border. A lack of consensus over what qualifies as an aquifer has made regulating these transboundary waters nearly impossible: The U.S. and Mexico share underground water basins that span more than 121,500 square miles of […]
Read more »Skipped Showers, Paper Plates: An Arizona Suburb’s Water Is Cut Off
January 16th, 2023
Courtesy of the New York Times, an article on how hundreds of homes outside the boundaries of Scottsdale can no longer get water from the city, and their owners are now living a worst-case scenario of drought in the West: Joe McCue thought he had found a desert paradise when he bought one of the […]
Read more »In a Drought, California Is Watching Water Wash Out to Sea
January 13th, 2023
Courtesy of The New York Times, a report on how – despite the heavy storms that have flooded parts of California – the state has been unable to capture billions of gallons of water that are flowing unchecked into the ocean: A century ago, Los Angeles built what is still widely considered one of the […]
Read more »A Water War Is Brewing Over the Dwindling Colorado River
January 7th, 2023
Via ProPublica, commentary on the tensions arising from a dwindling Colorado River: On a crisp day this fall I drove southeast from Grand Junction, Colorado, into the Uncompahgre Valley, a rich basin of row crops and hayfields. A snow line hung like a bowl cut around the upper cliffs of the Grand Mesa, while in […]
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