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The Rio Grande/Río Bravo Basin: old disputes in a new century
September 28th, 2022
Via the Global Water Forum, an article on the lingering disputes over the Rio Grande and Río Bravo basin: The Rio Grande River, known in Mexico as the Río Bravo, is one of the principal rivers in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Originating in Colorado in the U.S., the Rio Grande flows over 3,000 […]
Read more »Mississippi Water Crisis: Tip Of Global Disaster To Come
September 28th, 2022
Via The Washington Post, commentary on the Mississippi water crisis and what it may portend for the future: Addressing the U.N. General Assembly last week, Secretary General António Guterres called the climate crisis “our suicidal war against nature.” That war’s devastation can be seen in Jackson, Miss., where four residents have filed a lawsuit against the city […]
Read more »Colorado River: “I Don’t See How This Ends Well”
September 27th, 2022
Via John Fleck, commentary on the Colorado River crisis: I don’t see how this ends well. Most of the major players – the ones that matter, anyway, by which I mean Arizona, California, and the federal government – appear boxed in by constraints they can’t seem to overcome, while the water in the Colorado River’s […]
Read more »California: Thirsty Almonds Cause Wells Of The People That Harvest Them To Run Dry
September 22nd, 2022
Via Forbes, a report on how broiling heat in the middle of the worst drought in 1,200 years has strained California’s underground water supply, pitting the Central Valley’s $20 billion agriculture industry against many of its own workers: Nature has a way of telling people when their wells are running dry. In California’s Central Valley, […]
Read more »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 […]
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