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California’s Double Whammy: Drought and Floods
April 18th, 2023
Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times, an editorial on the challenges faced by a society experiencing drought and floods at the same time, the Golden State’s reality for the near future: Just as federal officials were laying out alternative scenarios last week for steep water supply cuts from the Colorado River due to the drying […]
Read more »Initial Response To The Colorado River Crisis Will Be Local
April 18th, 2023
Courtesy of STRATFOR Worldview, analysis that the initial response to the Colorado River crisis will be at the local level as federal initiatives will likely be delayed until after the national election in 2024: Political obstacles and increased winter precipitation will slow U.S. federal and state officials’ response to the decline of the Colorado River […]
Read more »Before Western States Suck the Colorado River Dry, We Have One Last Chance to Act
April 16th, 2023
Courtesy of The New York Times, commentary from Bruce Babbitt, the secretary of the Interior Department in the Clinton administration and former governor of Arizona: The Interior Department last summer dropped a bomb on the seven states that depend upon the Colorado River for water. It declared an emergency over the two-decade drought that was […]
Read more »Water Cuts Could Save The Colorado River. Farmers Are In The Crosshairs.
April 16th, 2023
Courtesy of The Washington Post, a report on how California’s Imperial Valley uses more water than several other states combined, but its farmers want to avoid big cuts: Alex Jack has spared little expense in the quest to grow vegetables in the desert with less water. It has cost him $2.5 million over the years […]
Read more »Biden Administration Proposes Evenly Cutting Water Allotments From Colorado River
April 12th, 2023
Courtesy of The New York Times, a report on how – as the Colorado river shrinks – the Biden administration is getting ready to impose, for the first time, reductions in water supplies to states: After months of fruitless negotiations between the states that depend on the shrinking Colorado River, the Biden administration on Tuesday […]
Read more »Tribe, US Officials Reach Deal To Save Colorado River Water
April 11th, 2023
Via ABC News, a report that a Native American tribe in Arizona has reached a deal with the U.S. government not to use some of its Colorado River water rights in return for $150 million and funding for a pipeline project: A Native American tribe in Arizona reached a deal Thursday with the U.S. government […]
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