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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 […]
Read more »The Colorado River Crisis: Can It Be fixed?
February 5th, 2023
Courtesy of The Washington Post, commentary on the Colorado River drought crisis and whether it can be fixed: The Colorado River is in crisis. The problem has been building for decades but has come to a head in recent years because the major manufactured reservoirs on the river have fallen to dangerously low levels, prompting […]
Read more »Confronting California’s Water Crisis
February 3rd, 2023
Via Inside Climate News, commentary on how California state officials should protect water as a public resource and rein in corporate water abusers to deal with its increasingly uncertain water future: Californians are still grappling with the aftermath of powerful storms that triggered dangerous flooding and mudslides across the state, even as the West’s unprecedented […]
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