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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 […]
Read more »Humans Killed Cataract Canyon. It Brought Itself Back to Life
February 26th, 2024
Courtesy of Rolling Stone, a look at how – after damming the Colorado River wiped out a magnificent stretch of rapids for half a century – they are now, incredibly, returning — on their own: THE RIVER CHURNS a muddy brown as it carries us through towering vermilion rock walls toward the roar of Gypsum Canyon […]
Read more »On The Colorado River, There Are No Simple Disputes
February 23rd, 2024
Via J. Fleck’s Inkstain, commentary on the foundational disputes that are holding up a new agreement on the Colorado River: One of the commentors to our January 19th, 2024, blog post titled “Are We headed for the First Colorado River Compact Tripwire?” – John C. (who, by-the-way runs a very talented water resources engineering firm) […]
Read more »The Colorado River Is Shrinking: Will Seven States Agree on How To Manage Its Water By March?
February 23rd, 2024
Via Phys.org, commentary on whether whether seven states agree on how to manage Colorado River water by March? The seven Colorado River states face a quickly approaching deadline to present a unified plan for how to manage the drying river that provides water for 40 million people across the West. But major disagreements remain ahead […]
Read more »This Arizona Aquifer Is Draining Faster Than All But 2 In U.S.
February 23rd, 2024
Via Tuscon.com, an article on the Gila Bend groundwater basin’s rapid decline: The Gila Bend groundwater basin about 125 miles northwest of Tucson has one of the fastest-falling aquifers known on the planet, a new study shows. The aquifer in the Gila Bend Basin — where pumping isn’t regulated — fell faster from 2000 through 2020 than […]
Read more »Dozens of Colorado Farmers, Ranchers and One City offer to Cut Colorado River Water Use for $8.7M
February 15th, 2024
Via Colorado Sun, a look at a Colorado River conservation program which aims to keep water in the river system as years of prolonged drought and overuse have threatened the water supply for millions of people by paying cash to those who reduce their water use: Coloradans gunning to join this year’s effort to save […]
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