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‘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. […]
Read more »Climate Change Is Ravaging the Colorado River, But There’s a Model to Avert the Worst
September 5th, 2022
Courtesy of The New York Times, an article on how water management success in the Yakima River Basin in Washington may hold lessons for the seven states at war over water in the American West: The water managers of the Yakima River basin in arid Central Washington know what it’s like to fight over water, […]
Read more »Five U.S. Cities That Potentially Could Run Out of Water
September 4th, 2022
Via The Weather Channel, a report on 5 U.S. cities that could potentially run out of water: It’s hard to imagine a city running out of water, but it could happen. Cape Town, South Africa, came perilously close to running out in early 2018. Aggressive conservation and efficiency efforts got the city through April 12, the day […]
Read more »Vague, Voluntary Proposals Will Not Help The Colorado River
September 4th, 2022
Via Glenwood Springs Post Independent, commentary on the current proposals to help the Colorado River: Water managers in recent weeks have put forth plans for conservation aimed at addressing the water-scarcity crisis on the Colorado River. But the proposals, which are vague and voluntary and lack goals with numbers, will probably do little to get […]
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