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California: Water Politics
October 27th, 2009
Courtesy of The Economist, a detailed look at California’s water politics as it struggles with drought and increasing demand for freshwater by a variety of end users, including fish. As the article notes: “…Water has divided Californians since Mark Twain remarked that “whiskey’s for drinking, water’s for fighting over.†But this latest conflict comes as […]
Read more »Nevada: Don’t Drink The Water In Mexico…
August 9th, 2009
Via The Las Vegas Review Journal, an interesting article suggesting that Nevada may look towards Mexico if various water conservation & desalination efforts in that country take off. As the article notes: “…Talks are progressing among officials from both sides of the border over new joint efforts to squeeze more water out of the arid […]
Read more »Central Texas Water Wars
June 28th, 2009
Via The Burnt Orange Report, an article on the evolving political water wars in central Texas. As the report notes: “…We’ve been expecting it for a long time, and now a Great Water War has come to Central Texas. The Lower Colorado River Authority has abandoned its water agreement with San Antonio, scrapped millions in […]
Read more »Southwest U.S.: A Thirsty Las Vegas Looks Northward
April 12th, 2009
Via Time, an interesting article on the further developing water conflicts in the southwest U.S., namely between a thirsty Las Vegas and communities to the north. As the article notes: “The valley below Nevada’s Snake mountains should not have much to fear from Las Vegas. Its dun-colored terrain daubed with the green of shrubs, meadow […]
Read more »Hands on The Tap: China, Israel, and U.S.
March 31st, 2009
Via The Nation, an interesting article positing further that the next resource wars will be fought, not over oil, but over water. As the article notes: “…Maude Barlow, senior advisor to the United Nations on water issues, wrote that the way in which we view water “will in large part determine whether our future is […]
Read more »“The West Will Run Dry”: U.S. To Tap Mexico?
January 20th, 2009
Via The Denver Post, an interesting article regarding recent moves between the U.S. and Mexico to ramp up discussions over efforts to enable downstream states to build desalting plants in Mexico that could provide water, albeit expensively, to both Mexico and the U.S. As the article notes, they are also launching talks for Mexico to […]
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