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Pumped Storage Hydro: Key to the Clean Energy Transition, but Where Will the Water Come From?
November 21st, 2023
Via Inside Climate News, a look at dozens of proposed projects that would pump water uphill to reservoirs before releasing it to generate electricity when wind and solar can’t. But their reliance on groundwater in the drought-stricken Southwest is leading to pushback: The smell of piñon pine filled the air as the Ghost Train of […]
Read more »Tribes Gain Clout As Colorado River Shrinks
November 18th, 2023
Via Water Education Foundation, a report on the growing influence of First Nations as the Colorado River shrinks: The climate-driven shrinking of the Colorado River is expanding the influence of Native American tribes over how the river’s flows are divided among cities, farms and reservations across the Southwest. The tribes are seeing the value of […]
Read more »Colorado River in Crisis: A Los Angeles Times Documentary
November 17th, 2023
Via the Los Angeles Times, a new documentary that examines the Colorado River and how the Southwest is grappling with the water crisis: The Colorado River can no longer withstand the thirst of the arid West. Water drawn from the river flows to millions of people in cities from Denver to Los Angeles and irrigates […]
Read more »San Diego Selling Back Some Pricey Colorado River Water for Cheaper Met Water
November 17th, 2023
Via Voice of San Diego, an article on a deal between formerly warring parties that could generate more water supplies in the drying West: A trade deal is brewing between major southern California water agencies to help restock a major reservoir on the drought-stricken Colorado River and meet federal demands to cut back use. San […]
Read more »20 Farming Families Use More Colorado River Water Than Some Western States
November 13th, 2023
Via Pro Publica, a look at how – despite the fact that, tens of millions of people and millions of acres of farmland rely on the Colorado River’s water – a small number of farmers get more water from the river than entire states: As the Colorado River snakes through the deserts of the Southwest […]
Read more »Feds Bet on Paying for Water Conservation to Protect the Colorado River
November 13th, 2023
Via Inside Climate News, a report that Arizona and other states have agreed to use considerably less water from the river through 2026, thanks in part to a wet winter: Arizona’s future was at a critical juncture at the beginning of 2023. Massive cuts to the state’s Colorado River water supply were being imposed. Deadlines loomed […]
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