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US Groundwater Is Being Shipped Overseas
June 11th, 2024
Via Mother Jones, a commentary on how Western states are selling off their aquifers to China and Gulf States: Alfalfa hay is a water-intensive crop, and exporting it is equivalent to exporting precious groundwater.Jack Richardson Water is life. It’s also big business. In our November + December 2023 issue, Mother Jones dives into the West’s […]
Read more »The Global Race for Water in the Arizona Desert
June 10th, 2024
Via Mother Jones, a podcast on a surprising contributor to the water crisis in the American West: Bales of hay are stored under shelters at Al Dahra Farms in the McMullen Valley in Wenden, Arizona. John Locher/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Nine […]
Read more »Arizona Tribes Were Left Out of Water Decisions Until 1908. Here’s How They Negotiate Today
May 24th, 2024
Via KJZZ, a report on how Arizona tribes, which were left out of water decisions until 1908, negotiate today: Arizona is home to 22 federally recognized tribes. Each is trying to tap into the state’s ever-shrinking supplies of surface and groundwater, and, most of all, the Colorado River, following decades of exclusion. Why do tribes […]
Read more »The Gen Z Water Dealmaker
May 18th, 2024
Via LAist, a podcast on people with the most power on the Colorado River. [music in] Hey, this is Antonia Cereijido.[CM1] You’re listening to Imperfect Paradise from LAist Studios, the show about hidden worlds and messy realities. My colleague, a correspondent on the show, Emily Guerin , used to be a beat reporter covering the […]
Read more »Colorado River Tribes Can Lease Their Water To Dry States, but Why Is It So Hard?
May 18th, 2024
Via Grist, a look at how the Colorado River Indian Tribes can now lease water to non-Indigenous users along the drought-stricken river, but most nations can’t do the same: The Colorado River Indian Tribes now have the ability to lease their water rights off-reservation, a move that could ease pressures on communities facing the effects […]
Read more »How Colorado Towns Are Trying To Get Some Water Certainty
May 7th, 2024
Via NPR, a podcast on how Colorado towns are trying to get some water certainty: In Western Colorado, towns and farms are banding together to pay a hundred million dollars for water they don’t intend to use. Today on the show, how scarcity, climate change and a first-dibs system of water management is forcing towns, […]
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