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Hard Choices Ahead For Colorado River
August 9th, 2022
Via Writers on the Range, commentary on the challenges facing the Colorado River: The seven Colorado River states – Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming – face a daunting mid-August deadline. The federal government has asked them to come up with a plan to reduce their combined water usage from the Colorado […]
Read more »The Colorado River Crisis
August 4th, 2022
Via The New York Times, commentary on the crisis facing the Colorado River: It’s past time to get real about the Southwest’s hardest-working river. About 40 million people rely on the Colorado River as it flows from Wyoming to Mexico. But overuse and climate change have contributed to its reservoirs drying up at such a […]
Read more »Big Water Pipelines, an Old Pursuit, Still Alluring in Drying U.S. West
July 22nd, 2022
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a look at how large-scale water engineering projects like the Los Angeles Aqueduct ushered in the modern era of the American West. More pipelines and water transfers have been proposed or are under construction in the drying region: As the region’s climate becomes drier, more pipelines are being proposed despite […]
Read more »U.S. Southwest Is Bone Dry and Key Water Sources Are At Risk
July 6th, 2022
Via Politico, a look at how climate change and worsening drought have driven water stores in the U.S. southwest to dangerous lows. Now the federal government is telling states to drastically cut back: California and six other Western states have less than 60 days to pull off a seemingly impossible feat: Cut a multi-way deal […]
Read more »As Colorado River Crisis Grows, An Urgent Call For Western states To ‘Act Now’
June 21st, 2022
Via the Los Angeles Times, an article on how – as the water crisis worsens on the Colorado River – an urgent call for Western states to ‘act now’ has been made: With the Colorado River’s depleted reservoirs continuing to drop to new lows, the federal government has taken the unprecedented step of telling the seven […]
Read more »Saving The Colorado River
June 20th, 2022
Via the Salt Lake City Tribune, commentary on how to save the Colorado River: The 40 million of us who depend upon the Colorado River are using more water than the river can provide. We are relentlessly plundering the water stored in Lake Mead and Lake Powell, to compensate for mounting water deficits. As these […]
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