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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 […]
Read more »Jackson Water Crisis: A Legacy of Environmental Racism?
September 4th, 2022
Via BBC, a look at the Jackson, Mississippi water crisis which some feel may be a legacy of environmental racism: Marshall lives in west Jackson, in the US state of Mississippi – a predominantly black and poor part of the city. He has no choice but to drink the tap water that Jackson residents have been […]
Read more »From Sun Belt to Dust Belt: Can U.S. Desert States Stave Off Their Decline?
September 1st, 2022
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an article on the precarious future of the U.S. southwest: The desert Sun Belt states of Arizona and Nevada have seen some of the fastest growth in the United States for the past half century, but if climate projections are accurate, that growth might turn into a decline as temperatures […]
Read more »America’s Water Future Cannot Be Won Without Changing America’s Farms
September 1st, 2022
Via Washington Post, commentary on the role that American agriculture will need to play in addressing the U.S.’s water scarce future: The Rev. William Dodd was not above making the occasional fraudulent loan application, which is how he wound up in London’s Tyburn Prison in 1777 under sentence of death. An unusually eloquent plea for mercy, supposedly […]
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