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2023: A Critical Juncture for Water Security
December 13th, 2022
Via Grist, predictions for the year ahead, including a look at water security: The past year has been characterized by very visible climate impacts — record-breaking heat, floods, and other natural disasters. An ongoing megadrought led to increasingly pressing concerns over the future of water security in the American West. Hurricanes pummeled Puerto Rico, Florida, and much of the […]
Read more »America’s Winter Lettuce Hub Set to Bear Brunt of Water Cuts
December 10th, 2022
Via Bloomberg, a report on the agricultural impact of the 21% cut to Arizona’s Colorado River allocation: Arizona, which grows most of the lettuce eaten in the US each winter, will be losing about a fifth of the water it gets from the Colorado River as drought and climate change diminish the key water basin. […]
Read more »Officials Fear ‘Complete Doomsday Scenario’ for Drought-Stricken Colorado River
December 6th, 2022
Courtesy of The Washington Post, a report that officials fear ‘complete doomsday scenario’ for drought-stricken Colorado River: The first sign of serious trouble for the drought-stricken American Southwest could be a whirlpool. It could happen if the surface of Lake Powell, a man-made reservoir along the Colorado River that’s already a quarter of its former size, […]
Read more »Water Thieves Abound In Dry California, But Are Very Hard To Catch
December 3rd, 2022
Via Grist, a look at why water thieves in California are so hard to catch: It’s not easy enforcing water regulations in the West. Just ask the officials in California who have been trying for almost a decade to penalize a man who took water from the river system that feeds San Francisco and bottled […]
Read more »Drought-Hit California Cities To Get Little Water From State
December 3rd, 2022
Via AP News, a report that California water agencies will only receive 5% of the allocations that they requested from the state: California water agencies that serve 27 million people will get just 5% of what they requested from the state to start 2023, water officials announced Thursday. The news of limited water comes as California […]
Read more »Time To Stop Blaming The Compact?
November 29th, 2022
Via Sustainable Waters, commentary on the Colorado River Compact and the conclusion that the true reason we are experiencing a water shortage crisis in the Colorado River Basin is not because of flaws in the Compact, but rather because we have been unable to reduce our use of water commensurate with the reality that the river […]
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