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‘We’re All Headed To A Very Dark Place’: Emails Reveal Tense Colorado River Talks
February 14th, 2023
Via Fortune, a look at the tense Colorado River talks amid the southwest’s megadrought: Competing priorities, outsized demands and the federal government’s retreat from a threatened deadline stymied a deal last summer on how to drastically reduce water use from the parched Colorado River, emails obtained by The Associated Press show. The documents span the June-to-August […]
Read more »Re-Engineering Glen Canyon Dam
February 14th, 2023
Via Land Desk, an interesting look at options for Glen Canyon Dam: For the last two years or so, federal Bureau of Reclamation officials have been fretting publicly about what might happen to Glen Canyon Dam as water levels continue to drop. Currently the surface of Lake Powell is perilously close to the penstocks, or the […]
Read more »Introduction to Water Rights & Resources
February 12th, 2023
Via HeinOnline, a helpful online resource on U.S. water rights: In 2022, water levels at Nevada’s Lake Mead reached historic lows. The largest reservoir in the United States, Lake Mead provides water to some 20 million people throughout Arizona, California, and Nevada. But increased demand for water has slowly diminished the reservoir’s resources, a situation […]
Read more »Senators Form Bipartisan Colorado River Caucus As Tensions Rise Over West’s Water Crisis
February 12th, 2023
Via CNN, a look at how several senators have formed a bipartisan Colorado River caucus as tensions rise in the West over region’s water crisis: As the Colorado River sinks further into crisis and tensions rise between Western states over how to divvy up painful water cuts, a bipartisan group of senators are formalizing a new caucus to examine […]
Read more »As Colorado River Shrinks, Water Evaporation Becomes Critical To California’s Future Supplies
February 10th, 2023
Via the Los Angeles Times, an article on h0w – as the Colorado River shrinks – evaporation become critical to California: Much of the Colorado River’s water is diverted from reservoirs and transported in canals to the farmlands and cities of the desert Southwest. But some of the water also ends up going elsewhere — […]
Read more »The Colorado River Agreement Proposal Includes A Significant Change
February 7th, 2023
Via the Washington Post, commentary on the proposed draft framework which includes a very significant change: The Feb. 1 front-page article “In West, no deal to save water” highlighted the lack of full agreement among the seven states that rely on the Colorado River. Indeed, California’s absence from the new multistate proposal is telling, highlighting […]
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