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‘Free Water’ Was Never Free, According To Historian of the American West
November 29th, 2022
Via The Revelator, commentary on how subsidized water cultivated the West, but this required becoming increasingly profligate with the region’s scarcest resource. The West uses too much water. For such a simple problem, the obvious solution — use less — lies frustratingly out of reach. That inability to change may seem hard to understand, but […]
Read more »The Colorado River Compact Turns 100 Years Old. Is It Still Working?
November 29th, 2022
Via Inside Climate News, a look at the Colorado River company, an agreement that didn’t consider the needs of Native Americans, Mexico or ecosystems and which – since its signing – the river has dropped, demand has skyrocketed and states have failed to agree on how to share it. On a chilly fall day, Eric Kuhn […]
Read more »Americans Are Running Out of Water: Could Icebergs Be An Answer?
November 18th, 2022
Via Newsweek, a report on how Americans could turn to icebergs as a potential partial solution to water shortages: The world is suffering from a freshwater crisis, including many parts of the United States that are experiencing prolonged drought. But could a bizarre potential solution—towing icebergs—help address the problem? That question is explored in an […]
Read more »Strengthening National Security Through Global Water Security
November 16th, 2022
Via The Hill, commentary on the link between US national security and global water stability: How would your day go without drinking water? How safe would you feel if you knew every day meant having to find water and coping with no toilet? A country’s ability to effectively provide and manage water and sanitation services […]
Read more »California: Desalination From Disaster To Solution
November 15th, 2022
Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times, a report on California’s renewed interest in desalination: For decades, environmentalists have decried ocean desalination as an ecological disaster, while cost-savvy water managers have thumbed their noses at desal’s lofty price tag. But as the American Southwest barrels into a new era of extreme heat, drought and aridification, officials and […]
Read more »Climate Change a “Top Tier Threat” in the 2022 U.S. National Security Strategy
November 15th, 2022
Via the Council on Strategic Risks, an article on the new 2022 U.S. National Security Strategy which specifically lists climate change as a “Top Tier Threat”: The Biden Administration’s new National Security Strategy (NSS), released in October 2022, elevates attention and focus on climate security beyond any prior NSS. The security risks of climate change get the attention […]
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