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Las Vegas Is Going All In on Its Water Conservation Plan
March 26th, 2024
Via Smithsonian Magazine, an article on how Las Vegas – as the Southwest dries – a city notorious for excess find a way to survive with less: Anything goes in Las Vegas, except excessive water use. Two decades ago, the city began to grapple with a reality that many other cities in the Southwest were trying to […]
Read more »Risks Ease For Colorado River Reservoirs After Wet Winter, but Long-Term Challenges Loom
March 19th, 2024
Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times, an article on the impact that a wet winter has had upon the Colorado River: After a wet year and a push to conserve water in the Southwest, federal officials say the risk of the Colorado River’s reservoirs declining to critically low levels has substantially eased for the next […]
Read more »As Colorado River Shrinks, States Continue To Argue Over Cuts
March 9th, 2024
Via The Land Desk, a look at how states continue to tussle over a shrinking Colorado River: The two groups of Colorado River watershed states — the Upper Basin and the Lower Basin — have each come up with a respective preliminary plan for how to deal with a shrinking supply of water in the […]
Read more »Can the Ocean Save the Colorado River? San Diego Thinks So.
March 7th, 2024
Via Voice of San Diego, an article on how the San Diego Water Authority is both selling off its expensive desal water and trying to make more of it: Facing rising costs and rates, the leaders of San Diego’s water lifelines are looking to sell some of its most expensive supply: de-salted ocean water from […]
Read more »Talks To Save The Colorado River Just Hit A Logjam
March 6th, 2024
Courtesy of The Washington Post, a report on how talks to save the Colorado River just hit a logjam: There has been a breakdown on the way toward a long-term plan to save the shrinking Colorado River. Negotiations over plans to conserve its waters starting in 2027 have bifurcated: Arizona and California, two of the biggest […]
Read more »Climate Change, Cost and Competition for Water Drive Settlement Over Tribal Rights to Colorado River
March 6th, 2024
Via AP News, a report on how a Native American tribe with one of the largest outstanding claims to water in the Colorado River basin is closing in on a settlement with more than a dozen parties, putting it on a path to piping water to tens of thousands of tribal members in Arizona who […]
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