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Big Ag Is Draining The Colorado River Dry
August 11th, 2023
Via Food and Water Watch, a new report on big Ag’s impact on the Colorado River: Key Findings The dangerous Big Ag feedback loop The American West is facing a water crisis, compounded by climate change, a history of bad policy, and government refusal to address Big Ag head-on. Huge agribusinesses remain unfazed by this […]
Read more »Getting Colorado River Water from California Farms Will take More Than Just Money
August 10th, 2023
Via Tuscon’s KGUN9 News, a report on tensions between Arizona and California over dwindling Colorado River water: Under the broiling hot sun of California’s Imperial Valley, a canal cuts the land in two. On one side, gravelly beige sand is dotted with scrub and shimmering waves of heat blur the mountains in the distance. On […]
Read more »No Water, No Workers, No Chips
August 4th, 2023
Via Foreign Policy, a look at how TSMC and other tech giants need to take climate and water scarcity into account or risk seeing their investments go up in smoke: All roads lead to Phoenix. On the gravy train of greenfield investment riding on the back of Inflation Reduction Act legislative incentives in the United […]
Read more »Colorado River, Stolen By Law
July 30th, 2023
Courtesy of Hight Country News, a look at how indigenous nations have been an afterthought in U.S. water policy for over a century, and that was all part of the plan: The turbulent, choppy waters of the Colorado River pull from tributaries as far north as Wyoming before they race south for hundreds of miles, crashing […]
Read more »Decades After the Colorado River Flooded the Chemehuevi’s Land, They Still Don’t Have Their Share
July 30th, 2023
Via High Country News, a report on how – nearly all of the Chemehuevi Tribe’s water – remains in the Colorado River and ends up being used by southern California cities: At night, the lights of Lake Havasu City’s hotels, boat launches and neighborhoods reflect off the reservoir that gave this busy Arizona tourist town […]
Read more »‘Fight for Our Lives’: Arizona’s Water Regime Limits Hopi Tribe’s Future
July 30th, 2023
Via High Country News, a report on a 45-year legal saga that is leaving the Hopi Tribe fighting for their economic ambitions through water access: In September 2020, the Hopi Tribe’s four-decade effort to secure its right to water culminated in a court proceeding. The outcome would determine how much water the arid reservation would receive […]
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