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America’s Desert Metropolis Is on the Short List to Lose Water
August 23rd, 2026
Via the New York Times, a look at how Arizona, decades ago, won funding for a massive Colorado River project by agreeing to be first in line for cuts at a time of deep drought. The Trump administration says that time has come. From a secure, windowless room in northern Phoenix, technicians control the Colorado […]
Read more »Nation’s Largest Reservoirs Are Drying Up, Threatening Life in the U.S. Southwest
August 18th, 2026
Via the New York Times, a look at how levels in Lakes Mead and Powell have not been so low since 1957, underscoring a water crisis that plagues seven states that rely on the Colorado River. Lakes Powell and Mead, the nation’s largest reservoirs, are drying up, sending a Colorado River system that provides water […]
Read more »Is India’s Indus Freeze a Warning for Every Shared River on Earth?
August 13th, 2026
Via Modern Diplomacy, a look at the Indus Treaty which is threatened by a dam India is building on the Chenab River which exceeds storage limits set by the treaty India insists no longer binds it. On May 15, 2026, an international tribunal in The Hague ruled that a dam India is building on the […]
Read more »U.S. Raises Threat of Steep Water Cuts in Lower Colorado River Basin
August 4th, 2026
Courtesy of New York Times, a report on a federal plan would impose drastic water cuts on Arizona, California and Nevada in dry years over the next decade. A legal battle could follow. Communities and farms across Arizona, Nevada and California face potentially drastic cuts in the water they can use from the Colorado River […]
Read more »A U.S. Desert Town May Run Out of Water. Others Could Face Same Fate.
July 27th, 2026
Via The Washington Post, a look at an Arizona community nearly dried up and imposed strict limits, and its crisis may be a glimpse of the West’s future. Mayor Curtis Stacy starts every morning checking two websites that tell him how much he needs to worry about water. One site tells him about the reservoir […]
Read more »How Water Is Becoming Pakistan’s Nuclear Threshold
July 26th, 2026
Via The Diplomat, a look at how the real danger lies not in the immediate scarcity of Indus water flowing from India into Pakistan but in the widening gap between how they interpret the same facts. In a speech at the Stockholm Water Symposium in August 1995, World Bank Vice President Ismail Serageldin warned that […]
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