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Arizona Pushes Largest For Largest Tribal Water Rights Settlement In U.S. History
March 15th, 2025
Via the Arizona Mirror, an article on Arizona’s elected officials’ efforts to achieve the largest tribal water rights settlement in US history: A settlement that will provide reliable and safe water for the Navajo Nation, the Hopi Tribe and the San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe has been introduced in Congress, where it must be approved […]
Read more »Forget Tariffs, Trump May Target the Great Lakes and Canada’s Freshwater Next
March 12th, 2025
Via The Financial Post, a report on how – with parts of the U.S. facing chronic drought – the U.S. president has reportedly threatened to tear up joint agreements regulating the natural wonders: Thomas Kierans was stopped by a reporter in St. John’s, Nfld., on the occasion of his 100th birthday. Regarded around town as […]
Read more »Will J.D. Vance save the Great Lakes from Trump?
February 14th, 2025
Courtesy of Grist, commentary on the new U.S. Administration’s policy towards the Great Lakes: Last year, Vice President J.D. Vance, then an Ohio senator, was part of a bipartisan coalition calling to increase funding for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, or GLRI — among the country’s largest investments aimed at protecting and restoring the Great Lakes. “The Great […]
Read more »Water: The Other US-Mexico Border Crisis That Is Growing Worse
February 7th, 2025
Via The Conversation, a report on growing water tensions between the U.S. and Mexico: Immigration and border security will be the likely focus of U.S.-Mexico relations under the new Trump administration. But there also is a growing water crisis along the U.S.–Mexico border that affects tens of millions of people on both sides, and it can only […]
Read more »The American Dream (Water Not Included)
February 7th, 2025
Via The Lever, a look at how real estate developers are running a dark-money campaign to overturn new housing rules — and ignore basic laws of nature: For most of human history, a simple axiom for survival seemed to prevail: Don’t build houses where there is too little water. Amid dangerous droughts, Arizona officials recently […]
Read more »At Phoenix’s Far Edge, a Housing Boom Grasps for Water
January 31st, 2025
Via Circle of Blue, a report on how more than 1 million people could pour into western Maricopa County, Arizona in the coming decades – if housing developers can secure the water: Buckeye, Arizona, has plans to become one of the Southwest’s largest cities in the next decades. Photo © Brett Walton/Circle of Blue Beneath […]
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