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As The Colorado River Dries Up, States Can’t Agree On Saving Water
January 31st, 2023
Courtesy of The Washington Post, an article on how the river’s biggest water user, California, didn’t join six states in a proposal to cut some 2 million acre feet of usage: For the second time in six months, states that depend on the Colorado River to sustain their farms and cities appear to have failed to reach an agreement […]
Read more »How Native Americans Will Shape the Future of Water in the U.S. West
January 29th, 2023
Courtesy of The New Yorker, a look how U.S. tribal nations – which hold the rights to significant portions of the Colorado River – are showing the way to sustainability in the era of increasing drought: As a child, Stephen Lewis heard stories about a river that, for the most part, no longer flowed. “How I grew […]
Read more »As the Colorado River Shrinks, Washington Prepares to Spread the Pain
January 27th, 2023
Courtesy of the New York Times, an article on how the seven states that rely on the Colorado River for water are not expected to reach a deal on cuts, thus making it likely that the Biden administration will have to impose reductions: The seven states that rely on water from the shrinking Colorado River are […]
Read more »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 […]
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