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Where The Colorado River Crisis Is Hitting Home
September 22nd, 2022
Via NPR, a look at where the Colorado River crisis is hitting home: These days it can feel almost cliche to throw around the word Dystopian. But it’s hard not to use it while standing on the narrow road crossing the Hoover Dam as tourists gawk at the hulking structure’s exposed columns that for decades […]
Read more »Colorado River Drying up — But Basin States Have ‘No Plan’ On How To Cut Water Use
September 20th, 2022
Via Colorado Public Radio, commentary on the Colorado River crisis: One month after states missed a federal deadline to propose ways to drastically cut their use of water supplied by the Colorado River, water managers who met for a seminar in Grand Junction said they still didn’t have comprehensive solutions ready to help bolster the imperiled river […]
Read more »Upstream Water Used To Keep Lake Powell Afloat Is Running Out
September 16th, 2022
Via CNN, an article on how the upstream water used to keep Lake Powell afloat is running out: Upstream reservoirs in the Colorado River Basin might not have enough water to keep Lake Powell above a critical threshold indefinitely, federal officials have warned in recent weeks, as the West’s ongoing megadrought saps water from across the West. The Flaming Gorge reservoir on the […]
Read more »‘There’s Not Enough Water:’ A Thirsty U.S. Export Crop vs. Global Food Supply Chains
September 14th, 2022
Via The Guardian, an article on how U.S. alfalfa farmers have been asked to give up crop amid the US southwest’s megadrought: On an early August morning in California’s Imperial Valley, tractors rumble across verdant fields of alfalfa, mowing down the tall grass and leaving it to dry in shaggy heaps under the hot sun. Here, […]
Read more »Tourism: Sucking Utah Dry?
September 11th, 2022
Via The Guardian, a report on how booming tourism expansion in Utah is squeezing the region’s dwindling water supply: It was a typically hot summer day in Utah’s Zion national park, where early-afternoon heat hovered near 100F, even in the shadows of the red peaks soaring overhead. But the extreme conditions did little to dissuade […]
Read more »Arizona: California ‘Failing To Do Its Part’ To Avert Megadrought ‘Catastrophe’
September 9th, 2022
Via 12 News, a report of growing discord between Arizona and California over shortages of water: Arizona and Nevada are gearing up for massive Colorado River cuts as Lake Mead water levels continue to drop to historic levels. California, however, won’t be facing any cuts, even though it is by far the largest user of Colorado River water. […]
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