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U.S. West’s Challenge Is Still Water Scarcity, Wet Winter Or Not
February 28th, 2017
Via the Christian Science Monitor, a detailed look at how – with climate change affecting water supplies already strained by urban growth – states in the Colorado River basin are being forced to innovate and adapt: The number of “For Sale” signs compete with “Open” in the storefronts along the main street in this hilly […]
Read more »The Trump Effect on U.S.-Mexico Water Talks
November 23rd, 2016
Via Politico, commentary on president-elect Donald Trump’s potential impact on a new water-sharing deal over the dwindling supplies from the Colorado River: Negotiators who’ve worked for years are pressing to finish a new water-sharing deal over the dwindling supplies from the Colorado River before president-elect Donald Trump takes office Jan. 20 — or put at risk […]
Read more »Southwest US: As Lake Mead Dwindles, Can An Interstate Water War Be Far Behind?
May 25th, 2016
Via the Los Angeles Times, an article on the growing tension over the dwindling Colorado River: The last time two states went to war over water, it was 1934. The combatants were California and Arizona and the casus belli was the start of construction of Parker Dam, which would direct water from the Colorado River into California via […]
Read more »Indian Tribes: Water Dealmakers In Drying Colorado River Basin
July 1st, 2015
Courtesy of Circle of Blue, a very interesting look at the role that native Americans – who hold 20 percent of the Colorado River basin’s water rights – will have in shaping the future of the Southwest: Mired in drought and torched by one of the hottest years ever measured, the seven states of the […]
Read more »Where The River Runs Dry: Southwestern America’s Water Crisis
May 29th, 2015
Courtesy of The New Yorker, a detailed look at the US southwest’s water crisis: Our pilot, David Kunkel, asked me to retrieve his oxygen bottle from under my seat, and when I handed it to him he gripped the plastic breathing tube with his teeth and opened the valve. We had taken off from Boulder […]
Read more »Federal Dollars Financing The Water Crisis In The American West
May 28th, 2015
Via Pro Public, an interesting detailed look at how federal dollars are financing the water crisis in the West: STATE ROUTE 87, the thin band of pavement that approaches the mostly shuttered town of Coolidge, Ariz., cuts through some of the least hospitable land in the country. The valley of red and brown sand is interrupted […]
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