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The Colorado River – Overused and Shrinking – A Crisis Transforming U.S. Southwest
January 27th, 2023
Via the Los Angeles Times, a report on how the Colorado River’s overuse is a crisis transforming the Southwest: The Colorado River begins as melting snow, trickling from forested peaks and coursing in streams that gather in the meadows and valleys of the Rocky Mountains. Like arteries, its major tributaries take shape across Colorado, Wyoming, […]
Read more »What Will ‘Weather Whiplash’ Mean for California?
January 21st, 2023
Courtesy of the New York Times, insightful commentary on California’s water crisis and challenges ahead: California is built upon the great gamble of irrigation. Left alone, much of the land in the Western United States would be inhospitable to teeming cities. But we’re Americans — we couldn’t let the desert stand in our way. More […]
Read more »Arizona: Developers Don’t Have Enough Groundwater To Build
January 19th, 2023
Via CNBC, an article on Arizonan developer who don’t have enough groundwater to build in the desert west of Phoenix: Developers planning to build homes in the desert west of Phoenix don’t have enough groundwater supplies to move forward with their plans, a state modeling report found. Plans to construct homes for people located west of […]
Read more »U.S. West Water Managers: ‘This Is Going To Be Painful’
January 19th, 2023
Via Arizona Mirror, a report on the western U.S.’s water crisis: Water authorities in the Western U.S. don’t have a crystal ball, but rapidly receding reservoirs uncovering sunken boats and other debris lost in their depths decades ago give a clear view of the hard choices ahead. If western states do not agree on a […]
Read more »Skipped Showers, Paper Plates: An Arizona Suburb’s Water Is Cut Off
January 16th, 2023
Courtesy of the New York Times, an article on how hundreds of homes outside the boundaries of Scottsdale can no longer get water from the city, and their owners are now living a worst-case scenario of drought in the West: Joe McCue thought he had found a desert paradise when he bought one of the […]
Read more »A Water War Is Brewing Over the Dwindling Colorado River
January 7th, 2023
Via ProPublica, commentary on the tensions arising from a dwindling Colorado River: On a crisp day this fall I drove southeast from Grand Junction, Colorado, into the Uncompahgre Valley, a rich basin of row crops and hayfields. A snow line hung like a bowl cut around the upper cliffs of the Grand Mesa, while in […]
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