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Will We Have to Pump the Great Lakes to California to Feed the Nation?
August 5th, 2024
Via New York Times, a look at the water/food nexus in the U.S. and the coming impact of climate change: Driving north through California’s Tejon Pass on Interstate 5, you spill down out of the mountains onto a breathtaking expanse of farm fields like few others in the world. Rows of almond, pistachio and citrus […]
Read more »California’s Water Supplies Could Be Drying Up
August 2nd, 2024
Via Newsweek, a report on California’s growing water crisis: California faces a growing water crisis as climate change risks reducing supplies from the State Water Project by as much as 23 percent in 20 years, according to projections. A new report, published on Wednesday by California’s Department of Water Resources (DWR), states that a 23 […]
Read more »White House Looks to Safeguard Groundwater Supplies as Aquifers Decline Nationwide
July 26th, 2024
Via Inside Climate News, an article on how the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology is working with local stakeholders to determine how the federal government can help communities dependent on groundwater protect the dwindling resource: In the middle of summer in the nation’s hottest city, water experts from local governments, tribal nations, […]
Read more »Thirsty New Subdivisions Have Made the Texas Groundwater Crisis Plain to See
July 25th, 2024
Via The Texas Tribune, a look at how overdevelopment in Texas,and the rules that encourage it, could literally sink communities such as Katy, where the land is subsiding due to groundwater extraction: Longhorns used to graze across the street from the house where Ozzy Tirmizi settled with his family in Katy, a western exurb of […]
Read more »As Rio Grande Runs Dry, South Texas Cities Look To Alternatives For Water
July 25th, 2024
Via The Texas Tribune, a report on how, as the Rio Grande runs dry, South Texas cities are looking to alternatives for water: The Rio Grande is no longer a reliable source of water for South Texas. That’s the sobering conclusion Rio Grande Valley officials are facing as water levels at the international reservoirs that […]
Read more »In Idaho, Water Shortages Pit Farmers Against One Another
July 20th, 2024
Via Inside Climate News, a look at how – this summer – a short-lived curtailment order brought a dispute to a head between farmers irrigating from the Snake River and those dependent on groundwater: Along the banks of the Snake River, below the Magic Valley’s fields of barley, wheat and corn, groundwater from a massive […]
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