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From Sun Belt to Dust Belt: Can U.S. Desert States Stave Off Their Decline?
September 1st, 2022
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an article on the precarious future of the U.S. southwest: The desert Sun Belt states of Arizona and Nevada have seen some of the fastest growth in the United States for the past half century, but if climate projections are accurate, that growth might turn into a decline as temperatures […]
Read more »America’s Water Future Cannot Be Won Without Changing America’s Farms
September 1st, 2022
Via Washington Post, commentary on the role that American agriculture will need to play in addressing the U.S.’s water scarce future: The Rev. William Dodd was not above making the occasional fraudulent loan application, which is how he wound up in London’s Tyburn Prison in 1777 under sentence of death. An unusually eloquent plea for mercy, supposedly […]
Read more »As Colorado River Dries, the U.S. Teeters on the Brink of Larger Water Crisis
August 25th, 2022
Via Pro Publica, a report on how the megadrought gripping the U.S. western states is only part of the problem – alternative sources of water are also imperiled, and the nation’s food along with it: The western United States is, famously, in the grips of its worst megadrought in a millennium. The Colorado River, which […]
Read more »World’s Rivers Drying Up From Extreme Weather
August 21st, 2022
Courtesy of CNN, a look at how the world’s rivers are drying up from extreme weather from space: To be stuck “up a river without a paddle” is an expression for a sticky situation you just can’t get out of. But if that river happens to be in the northern hemisphere this summer, it’s likely […]
Read more »A Next-Level Water Crisis: Colorado River Basin Faces Tier 2 Restrictions
August 18th, 2022
Via Yale Climate Connections, a report on the unprecedented move to Tier 2 restrictions as southwestern states wrangle over how to cut water use: The grinding megadrought that’s plagued the southwestern United States since 2000 plunged to a new level of seriousness on Tuesday, August 16, as the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced that the first-ever […]
Read more »Colorado River Crisis Continues
August 18th, 2022
Via The Land Desk, commentary on the Colorado River crisis: THE NEWS: “Today is a very important day for the Colorado River Basin. We are facing unprecedented challenges.” So said Tanya Trujillo, Assistant Secretary for Water and Science at the Interior Department, at an Aug. 16 press conference, setting the stage for the federal government to […]
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