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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, […]
Read more »Historic Agreement Gives Colorado River Indian Tribes Control Over Use of Their Water off Tribal Land
May 3rd, 2024
Via Inside Climate News, a report on a historic deal that will help the tribe raise money for infrastructure and services for its members while the water could ease the drought in the Southwest: Against a backdrop of the Colorado River, members of the Colorado River Indian Tribes watched Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, […]
Read more »California Poised To Crack Down On Overpumping of Groundwater In The Agricultural Heartland
April 18th, 2024
Via CalMatters, a report on California’s crackdown on farmers who deplete groundwater: IN SUMMARY Kings County agencies and growers may face probation and millions of dollars in fines — which could be the first step toward the state wresting control of groundwater. For the first time in California history, state officials are poised to crack […]
Read more »‘Water Is More Valuable Than Oil’: The Corporation Cashing In On America’s Drought
April 16th, 2024
Via The Guardian, an article on an unprecedented deal in which a private company purchased land in a tiny Arizona town – and sold its water rights to a suburb 200 miles away. Local residents fear the agreement has ‘opened Pandora’s box’: One of the biggest battles over Colorado River water is being staged in […]
Read more »Addressing the Colorado River Crisis
April 11th, 2024
Via the Stanford Report, commentary on the future of water in the Southwest: Low water levels reveal the rocky shores of Lake Powell, formed by the damming of the Colorado River in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, near Page, Arizona. (Image credit: Getty Images) Sustaining the American Southwest is the Colorado River. But demand, damming, diversion, […]
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