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Day Zero On The Colorado River
June 29th, 2021
Via Sustainable Waters, an article on the increasing water stress on the Colorado River: The US Bureau of Reclamation, in its most recently published “24 Month Study,” projects that Lake Powell on the Colorado River will be three-quarters empty by New Years Day. There are three reasons that Lake Powell is drying up: (1) natural […]
Read more »Decades-long ‘Megadroughts’ in U.S. Southwest and Central Plains More Likely Due to Climate Change
June 26th, 2021
Via Circle of Blue, a report on how droughts that are extreme by today’s standards will be normal by the end of the century: If the world continues to add carbon to the atmosphere at current rates, ‘megadroughts’ lasting more than two decades will be commonplace by the end of the century in the driest […]
Read more »The American West Is Drying Out: Things Will Get Ugly
June 22nd, 2021
Via CNN, commentary on drought in the US West: The incredible pictures of a depleted Lake Mead, on the Nevada-Arizona border, illustrate the effects of drought brought on by climate change. Later this year, the US government will almost certainly declare the first-ever water shortage along the Colorado River. Maps show more than a quarter of the US […]
Read more »Common Misconceptions About Water Security
June 10th, 2021
Via Sustainable Waters, commentary on common misconceptions about water security: Seems like every day brings another news story about the water crisis in the Western US. Never in my lifetime have I seen such an intense drought spanning such a wide geographic sweep: from West Texas to the Rio Grande to the Colorado River to […]
Read more »Are We Inching Towards Actual Violence Over Access to Water?
June 8th, 2021
Via Esquire, commentary on water stress in the southwest USA: Here at the shebeen, one of the larger elements in our portfolio is water—specifically, the increasing political salience of water, especially in the West, where they are experiencing such profound drought conditions that the Hoover Dam, of all things, is losing its reason for being. […]
Read more »Amid Dire Colorado River Outlook, States Plan to Tap Their Lake Mead Savings Accounts
June 5th, 2021
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, an article on how – this year and next – Arizona and California intend to draw on water they banked in the big reservoir, even as water levels drop: Key Takeaways: Shared by seven states and Mexico, the Colorado Basin provides about 40 million Americans with a portion of their […]
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