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The Colorado Provides Drinking Water to 40M People. Do They Know What Utah Does to It Upstream?
July 30th, 2023
Via Mother Jones, a report on the Colorado River and upstream use/energy-related pollution: From the water, the White River canyon was a scene worthy of Ansel Adams. Swallows darted in and out of mud houses packed on the underside of the soaring sandstone cliffs. A lone elk wandered the hillside, while sheep noshed along the water, […]
Read more »How Private Interests Benefit From Tribal Water Settlements
July 30th, 2023
Via High Country News, a look at how – when power players like mining and agriculture are involved – tribal nations, usually the senior-most water-rights holders, often must fight obstruction: First, the Santa Cruz River stopped flowing into the San Xavier District of the Tohono O’odham Nation. Then wells began to dry up across the reservation, […]
Read more »Colorado River Has Lost 10 Trillion Gallons of Water Since 2000
July 27th, 2023
Courtesy of The Guardian, a look at how the Colorado River has lost 10tn gallons of water since 2000 due to the climate crisis, a volume of water lost equal to Lake Mead, US’s largest reservoir, or enough water to fill around 15bn Olympic-sized pools: The climate crisis has caused the ailing Colorado River basin, a system […]
Read more »Private Firms Scour Booming Nevada Desert For Water Profits
July 19th, 2023
Via Terra Daily, an article on private firms scour booming Nevada desert for water profits: Beneath a bone-dry Nevada lakebed, close to the dusty desert where the Burning Man festival is held each year, an ambitious water project is reshaping this pocket of the US West.A giant, natural underground aquifer containing enough water to supply […]
Read more »Understanding the Real Fight Over Water in Arizona
July 17th, 2023
Via Bloomberg, an interview discussing at Arizona’s water: Arizona recently announced new constraints on housing development in the areas around Phoenix. At issue is water rights and scarcity, which have been a challenge for the US Southwest for as long as people have been living there. That being said, the region is currently in the […]
Read more »How a Saudi firm Tapped a Gusher of Water in Drought-Stricken Arizona
July 17th, 2023
Courtesy of The Washington Post, an article on how lax rules allowed a foreign-owned company to pump water from state land to grow alfalfa for the kingdom’s cattle: A megadrought has seared Arizona, stressing its rivers and reservoirs and reducing water to a trickle in the homes of farmworkers near this desert valley. But green […]
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