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Dams In U.S. Southwest Getting Hung Out To Dry
April 11th, 2022
Via Ars Technica, a report on how hydro power is decreasing as climate change hangs the Southwestern US out to dry: News that Arizona’s Lake Powell is slowly but surely drying up has spread far and wide. The reservoir behind the 1,320-megawatt Glen Canyon Dam and power station, Lake Powell plays an important role in providing power […]
Read more »Arizona’s Future Water Shock
March 29th, 2022
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a report on Arizona’s water future: On a Saturday morning in late January a chill wind kicks up dust on the high desert ridge north of Scottsdale where wood skeletons of new homes appear above the mesquite and cactus of the Rio Verde Foothills. Along Rio Verde Drive a white […]
Read more »A ‘Dangerous Game of Chicken” On The Colorado River
March 23rd, 2022
Via Writers on the Range, commentary on inter-basin negotiations and use of water from the Colorado River: Seven Western states and their leaders — all depending on water from the Colorado River — remain divided. Split into basins by an imaginary border at Lees Ferry, Arizona, each state can share blame for the rapid depletion […]
Read more »Colorado River: Don’t Blame Upper Basin States
March 22nd, 2022
Via Writers on the Range, commentary on the Colorado River blame game between Upper and Lower Basin states: Kyle Roerink’s recent “Writers on the Range” opinion (“A dangerous game of chicken on the Colorado River”) reminds one of Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s 1983 caution in a Washington Post op-ed: “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but […]
Read more »The West’s Megadrought Has Left One Arizona Neighborhood with No Water At All
March 16th, 2022
Via Grist, a look at how the West’s megadrought is leaving one Arizona neighborhood with no water at all: Late last year, Leigh Harris logged onto a local Facebook group and learned that she and her neighbors were about to lose their water — for good. Harris lives in an area called Rio Verde Foothills, […]
Read more »Arizona’s Desert Civilization Confronts A Reckoning Over Water
March 16th, 2022
Via Circle of Blue, an article on how Arizona’s powerful will to grow is challenged by extreme heat, deep drought, and serious water-related stress: Tales of personal anguish are the typical start of serious articles about Arizona’s conspicuous confrontation with scarce water. The distraught Chino Valley homeowner buying water out of a truck because her well […]
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