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Texas’ Plan To Provide Water To Growing Population Virtually Ignores Climate Change
November 2nd, 2022
Via the Texas Tribune, a report that Texas’ biggest single solution to providing enough water for its soaring population in the coming decades – using more surface water, including about two dozen new large reservoirs – is threatened by climate change’s impact on river flows: This small South Texas border community 200 miles southwest of San […]
Read more »Can Pricing Groundwater Help Solve California’s Water Problems?
November 1st, 2022
Via the Bay Area’s Local News, commentary on the potential that pricing groundwater may offer to solve California’s water problems: In the face of of its worst drought in centuries, California is finally getting around to regulating its groundwater use. As an agricultural economist who studies water regulation in California, I think this is a unique […]
Read more »One City Paid $1.1M To Keep Faucets Running Through March
November 1st, 2022
Via CNN, a look at how one California city is trying to survive the drought: Miles of brittle, uprooted almond trees lay dead on their sides on parched farmland in Coalinga, California, as an intensifying drought, new restrictions and skyrocketing water prices are forcing farmers to sacrifice their crops. Roadside signs warn against watering front lawns as residents […]
Read more »Amid Historic Drought, California Approves $140M Desalination Plant
October 28th, 2022
Via Reuters, a report on a new desalination plant which is part of California’s effort to battle drought: California regulators unanimously approved a $140 million desalination plant on Thursday, offering a guideline for how the state can convert ocean water into drinking water amid the worst drought in 1,200 years. Just five months ago, the […]
Read more »Drought Strangling The Mighty Mississippi
October 27th, 2022
Via The Washington Post, a look at the drought strangling the mighty Mississippi: Sandra Nelson crouched at a spot of riverbed that would normally be deep underwater, gathering rocks and jars of soil as souvenirs. Nearby, a man with a metal detector roamed the barren ground for treasures at twilight. A father carried his daughter on […]
Read more »As Drought Drives Prices Higher, Millions Of Californians Struggle To Pay For Water
October 27th, 2022
Via the Los Angeles Times, an article on the impact that drought is having upon millions of Californians who struggle to pay for water: Several months ago, Rosario Rodriguez faced a financial dilemma that has become all too common for millions of drought-weary Californians — either pay the electric bill, which had skyrocketed to about […]
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